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Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:25:06 -0500
From:	"Troy Bull" <troy DOT bull AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: File name length
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin)
<reply-to-list-only-lh AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
>
> Troy Bull wrote:
>  > Greetings
>  >
>  > Over the last few days I have ran into the error where a filename is
>  > too long for cygwin.  I know this has been discussed does anyone have
>  > a timeline for when this might get changed?
>
>  It will be changed for the 1.7.x series.  You can experiment with the
>  snapshots <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/> if you like.  There are no
>  firm timeline for the release yet.
>

this looks interesting and I am glad to give it a try.  That being
said, how do i use it, just replace my current cygwin1.dll with the
one I download from this snapshot page?

Thanks
troy

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