Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/10/08/15:17:06
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Arne Glenstrup wrote:
> 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.
This is a known and well-documented limitation of DOS. The problem is
not only with the length of the pathname, it's also with the nesting:
DOS cannot handle pathnames more than 8 levels deep and more than 64
characters long.
Btw, Windows 9X removes these limitations.
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