Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/10/13/08:56:32
Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:
: 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.
Well, it increases the maximum length of an absolute file name,
doesn't it?
Right,
MartinS
- Raw text -