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Message-ID: | <36159E31.F93B4060@cartsys.com> |
Date: | Fri, 02 Oct 1998 20:46:57 -0700 |
From: | Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com> |
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To: | Arne Glenstrup <panic AT diku DOT dk> |
CC: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: mkdir chokes on `i386-msd' directory name |
References: | <Pine DOT HPP DOT 3 DOT 95 DOT 981002101158 DOT 17914B-100000 AT grimer DOT diku DOT dk> |
Arne Glenstrup wrote: > > Hi again, > > I'm sorry to say that my problem description was rather vague; it turned > out that the real problem was in using `mkdir' for directories whose > absolute path names would be longer than approximately 66 characters. > I.e., if Ithe current directory is > > /23456789/12345678/01234567/90123456/89012345/78901234/67890123/ > > then `mkdir 56789012' fails. I'm pretty sure that's a limitation of DOS. No path name can be longer than 60-something characters. :( -- Nate Eldredge nate AT cartsys DOT com
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