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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:24:15 -0500
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Subject: file name too long
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Hello,

I updated my cygwin installation to 1.5.25-15 but I'm still getting
'file name too long' errors when trying to extract a .tgz archive that
contains some really long pathnames.

Here is an example of one of the errors:

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. Interestingly, even some of the files that 'tar' can extract,
'ls' returns an error when I try to see the contents of the directory:

ls: cannot access
S1172_Spanish_Protin_Total_Nucleic_Acid.fa.cdhit_out.masked.goodSeq_file0.fa:
File name too long

I found this (http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2008-01/msg00000.html)
discussion of what seems to be the same problem that I am having. So,
was a fix ever implemented? Is there a workaround to this problem
other than installing Linux?

Thank you for your help,

Paul

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