From: "Tom Demmer" Organization: Lehrstuhl Stroemungsmechanik, RUB To: Martin Stromberg , djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 08:05:58 GMT-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Where to get the latest sources for djtar Reply-to: Demmer AT lstm DOT ruhr-uni-bochum DOT de Message-ID: <4C679816999@brain1.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Precedence: bulk [...] > > > > > I think the limitation is not 24 slashes, it's the length of the path > > > > name. Anything longer than 64 characters should make DOS barf. > > Sorry, I meant > "C:/1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18/19/20/21/22/23/24/25". > This is 58 (or 59 including '\0' at the end) characters long. > > Anyway it doesn't matter, as it's not the solution. > Just to make things a bit more interesting, NetWare (at least 3.x) has its own ideas about how deep directories may nest. The default level is, IIRC, something between 6 and 10, so not quite a lot. This can lead to funny bugs where you cannot untar to a networked drive, but to a local one. So, checking for which kind of error occurs is worth it. Ciao Tom ****************************************************************** * Thomas Demmer * Phone : +49 234 700 6434 * * Universitaetsstr. 150 * Fax : +49 234 709 4162 * * Lehrstuhl fuer Stroemungsmechanik * * * D-44780 Bochum * * ****************************************************************** * Email: demmer AT LStM DOT Ruhr-Uni-Bochum DOT De * * WWW: http://www.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/~demmer * ****************************************************************** Hall's Rule of Explanations: Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way.