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Paul Cantalupo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I updated my cygwin installation to 1.5.25-15 but I'm still getting
> 'file name too long' errors when trying to extract a .tgz archive that
> contains some really long pathnames.
> 
> Here is an example of one of the errors:
> 
> tar: S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid/S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid.fa.cdhit_out.masked.goodSeq_HGblast/S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid.fa.cdhit_out.masked.goodSeq_file7.HGblast.out:
> Cannot open: File name too long
> 
> 
> This name is only 201 chars long; I thought Windows max file length
> was 255. Interestingly, even some of the files that 'tar' can extract,
> 'ls' returns an error when I try to see the contents of the directory:
> 
> ls: cannot access
> S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid.fa.cdhit_out.masked.goodSeq_file0.fa:
> File name too long
> 
> I found this (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2008-01/msg00000.html)
> discussion of what seems to be the same problem that I am having. So,
> was a fix ever implemented? Is there a workaround to this problem
> other than installing Linux?

Yes, it was implemented for the upcoming Cygwin 1.7 release, now in
release testing:

<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2009-02/msg00018.html>

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