From:	"Tom Demmer" <DEMMER AT brain1 DOT lstm DOT ruhr-uni-bochum DOT de>
Organization:	Lehrstuhl Stroemungsmechanik, RUB
To:	Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>,
	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 1998 08:05:58 GMT-1
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: Where to get the latest sources for djtar
Reply-to:	Demmer AT lstm DOT ruhr-uni-bochum DOT de
Message-ID:	<4C679816999@brain1.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>

[...]
> 
> > > > I think the limitation is not 24 slashes, it's the length of the path 
> > > > name.  Anything longer than 64 characters should make DOS barf.
> 
> Sorry, I meant
> "C:/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18/19/20/21/22/23/24/25".
> This is 58 (or 59 including '\0' at the end) characters long.
> 
> Anyway it doesn't matter, as it's not the solution.
> 
Just to make things a bit more interesting, NetWare (at least 3.x) 
has its own ideas about how deep directories may nest. The default 
level is, IIRC, something between 6 and 10, so not quite a lot. This 
can lead to funny bugs where you cannot untar to a networked drive, 
but to a local one. So, checking for which kind of error occurs is 
worth it.

Ciao 


Tom

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