Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:45:18 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygpath bug (windows 2000) Message-ID: <20040227134518.GA19641@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <476AFB33B6D50B4286FB94A671FC779E03924C AT COXML1 DOT cox DOT co DOT uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <476AFB33B6D50B4286FB94A671FC779E03924C@COXML1.cox.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:22:38AM -0000, Hughes, Bill wrote: >> Sent: 27 February 2004 10:43 From: Christian Matuszewski >>cgf says: >>>Try the latest snapshot . >> >>Thank you very much, now cygpath doesn't crash anymore. >> >>But is it necessary, that cygpath gives the error message: cygpath: >>error converting "/ddd...ddd" - File or path name too long ? When i >>think of cygpath as a tool to convert strings, then it should work with >>paths of arbitrary length. Is this possible? > >Unless Microsoft have changed something there is a maximum path length >of 255 on windows so cygpath working with arbitrary length strings is a >bit pointless. Correct. -- 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/