Hi Larry, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:50 PM: [snip] > Windows places a limit on the number of ASCII characters in a > file/path name. It's approximately 260 characters. Cygwin path > conversion > may cut that down > a bit.
Is there any pointer at MS, where this is described exaclty? I was only able to find some entries in the knowledge base that describe applications that are affected by this limit, but nowhere an explanation under what circumstances a process/application is hit by this limit. Thanks, Jörg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
