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Date:	Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:45:18 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: cygpath bug (windows 2000)
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:22:38AM -0000, Hughes, Bill wrote:
>> Sent: 27 February 2004 10:43 From: Christian Matuszewski 
>>cgf says:
>>>Try the latest snapshot <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>.
>>
>>Thank you very much, now cygpath doesn't crash anymore.
>>
>>But is it necessary, that cygpath gives the error message: cygpath:
>>error converting "/ddd...ddd" - File or path name too long ?  When i
>>think of cygpath as a tool to convert strings, then it should work with
>>paths of arbitrary length.  Is this possible?
>
>Unless Microsoft have changed something there is a maximum path length
>of 255 on windows so cygpath working with arbitrary length strings is a
>bit pointless.

Correct.

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