On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Tim McDaniel <t...@panix.com> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Paul Cantalupo <hey, I remembers to expunge > this!> wrote: >> >> 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. > > I have a vague memory that the limit includes the current directory > path. Anyone else know whether that's true or not?
The issue is definitely an issue with the full path length. There may also be a max filename length, but I have not come across it. >> Is there a workaround to this problem other than installing Linux? > Since your just trying to extract a tar file, create a directory "c:/a" then cd into it and try to extract from there. We use that trick fairly often. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- 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/
