On 26/11/2013 15:43, Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: > 2013/11/26 Craig Peterson <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > On Nov 26, 2013, at 7:59 AM, Richard Mace <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> I have an issue where I am unable to delete a file where the path >> name is longer than 256 characters. > You need to call the Unicode variant of the file APIs and add \\?\ > to the start of the path in order to interact with paths longer than > MAX_PATH. > See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247(VS.85).aspx#maxpath > for details. > Richard wanted to delete his file programmatically, of course, else he > wouldn't be asking his question in this list :-P
I think Craig understands that - how do you intend to call APIs from the command line? (Yes, rundll probably but ok). Otherwise, could you explain a bit more? BTW: IIRC, there was a huge discussion about using the unicode API for (once again IIRC) exactly the file deletion/manipulation API calls in the FPC list. @Richard: you could have a search through there... -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
