Hello, I updated my cygwin installation to 1.5.25-15 but I'm still getting 'file name too long' errors when trying to extract a .tgz archive that contains some really long pathnames.
Here is an example of one of the errors: tar: S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid/S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid.fa.cdhit_out.masked.goodSeq_HGblast/S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid.fa.cdhit_out.masked.goodSeq_file7.HGblast.out: Cannot open: File name too long This name is only 201 chars long; I thought Windows max file length was 255. Interestingly, even some of the files that 'tar' can extract, 'ls' returns an error when I try to see the contents of the directory: ls: cannot access S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid.fa.cdhit_out.masked.goodSeq_file0.fa: File name too long I found this (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2008-01/msg00000.html) discussion of what seems to be the same problem that I am having. So, was a fix ever implemented? Is there a workaround to this problem other than installing Linux? Thank you for your help, Paul -- Paul Cantalupo Research Specialist/Systems Programmer 559 Crawford Hall Department of Biological Sciences University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 Work: 412-624-4687 Fax: 412-624-4759 -- 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/
