X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <47EBF5F6.7030609@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:31:02 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: File name length References: <47EBF072.3000309@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Troy Bull wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: >> Troy Bull wrote: >> > Greetings >> > >> > Over the last few days I have ran into the error where a filename is >> > too long for cygwin. I know this has been discussed does anyone have >> > a timeline for when this might get changed? >> >> It will be changed for the 1.7.x series. You can experiment with the >> snapshots if you like. There are no >> firm timeline for the release yet. >> > > this looks interesting and I am glad to give it a try. That being > said, how do i use it, just replace my current cygwin1.dll with the > one I download from this snapshot page? Yes, if you just want to use it. If you want to build things against this, then you need the larger set of files. Make sure you've stopped all Cygwin apps (including services) before doing the replace. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/