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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 06:34:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: Bug.   "File or path name too long"
To: Derek Haskin <derek DOT haskin AT commerceone DOT com>,
        "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
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The path size limit is set by MAX_PATH and is a limitation of the M$ Windows
system.  It's set to 260 which is the NT limit including the terminating NULL. 
I believe the limit to be 259 for Win9x (at least Win95).

--- Derek Haskin <derek DOT haskin AT commerceone DOT com> wrote:
> I have installed Cygwin 1.0 on a new Machine.
> 
> I am experiencing a problem where it seems that I am reaching the limit on
> how long a path/filename can be.
> I first experienced this during "make" which tries to create a class file
> but can;t because the pathname/filename is too long.
> 
-8<-

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   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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