From: Paul Shirley <Paul AT chocolat DOT obvious DOT fake DOT foobar DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: why are dir.h's file defines so small?
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 13:45:09 +0100
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In article <1998072600112200 DOT UAA09619 AT ladder03 DOT news DOT aol DOT com>, OoHOSEoO
<oohoseoo AT aol DOT com> writes
>#define MAXPATH   512
>#define MAXDRIVE  3
>#define MAXDIR   250
>#define MAXFILE   250
>#define MAXEXT   9

Correct values for Win32 should be:

#define MAXPATH   260
#define MAXDRIVE  3
#define MAXDIR    256
#define MAXFILE   256
#define MAXEXT    256

Personally I would bump the MAXPATH value up a bit for safety, because
djgpp could conceivably not honour the Windoze 260 char limit in some
circumstanes (but this is just speculation;)
256 is the absolute maximum length of each entry in a VFAT directory.

If you plan on using URLs try MAXPATH=1024.

In article <199807260114 DOT VAA20247 AT delorie DOT com>, DJ Delorie
<dj AT delorie DOT com> writes
>JGPP is a DOS compiler.  Those are the correct values for MS-DOS.  If
>you think they should be different, post a diff to
>djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com with your rationale.

...but those are wrong for LFN enabled Dos in a DOSbox, since djgpp
supports LFNs it should use correct LFN values for safety.


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