RE: Cgywin filename with 255 character

[Jörg Schaible <Joerg dot Schaible at Elsag-Solutions dot com>]

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

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