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Subject:	RE: File name length
Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:41:41 -0000
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cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com wrote on 27 March 2008 19:31:

> Troy Bull wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) 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?
> 
> Yes, if you just want to use it.  If you want to build things against
> this, then you need the larger set of files.  Make sure you've stopped
> all Cygwin apps (including services) before doing the replace.

  IIRC there's a FAQ entry on this.  Hang on, I'll look it up.  Ah, here we
are:

http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.snapshots


    cheers,
      DaveK
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