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Re: Cgywin filename with 255 character
- From: "Lev Bishop" <lev dot bishop at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:57:19 -0400
- Subject: Re: Cgywin filename with 255 character
- References: <8389af8b0603241937m62e9701y596bed40382bd6f0@mail.gmail.com> <4424BE59.9184F1E1@dessent.net> <e02h7v$ovh$1@sea.gmane.org> <loom.20060710T222739-458@post.gmane.org> <44B3BA9E.70604@cygwin.com>
On 7/11/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
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.
More precisely, both the windows version of the path, and the posix
version of the path, must each be less than 260 characters, including
the 3 chars of 'C:\' for the windows version and the full path from
root for the cygwin version. If you want to access long filenames via
a cygwin path, make sure you mount the directory such that the cygwin
mountpoint is at least as short as the windows path of the mountpoint.
Lev
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