X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,MISSING_HEADERS,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:27:03 -0600 (CST) From: Tim McDaniel cc: Cygwin mailing list Subject: Re: file name too long In-Reply-To: <37bd06460902241224p2b44d828id6e15d4c4cc453b8@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <37bd06460902141000s4c1adfa8gb7c0ab135be210f9@mail.gmail.com> <37bd06460902241224p2b44d828id6e15d4c4cc453b8@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Paul Cantalupo wrote: > tar: S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid/S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid.fa.cdhit_out.masked.goodSeq_HGblast/S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid.fa.cdhit_out.masked.goodSeq_file7.HGblast.out: > Cannot open: File name too long > > This name is only 201 chars long; I thought Windows max file length > was 255. I have a vague memory that the limit includes the current directory path. Anyone else know whether that's true or not? What's the current directory name when running that? If you add the length of the current directory name, plus one for the "/" separator, plus the length of the path above, is it more than 254? > Is there a workaround to this problem other than installing Linux? When the problem can be helped with a shorter directory name, I use the subst Windows command to map the directory to a drive letter. That shortens the directory name from whatever to 2. For example, M: is one letter that I leave unused, and /mnt is my value instead of /cygdrive. So, as an untested example from Windows Server 2003: /mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32/subst M: 'c:\long\path name\goes here' pushd /mnt/m [do my work here] popd /mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32/subst M: /d # unmap the drive letter -- Tim McDaniel, tmcd@panix.com -- 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/