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Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 20:46:57 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: Arne Glenstrup <panic AT diku DOT dk>
CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: mkdir chokes on `i386-msd' directory name
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Arne Glenstrup wrote:
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> I'm sorry to say that my problem description was rather vague; it turned
> out that the real problem was in using `mkdir' for directories whose
> absolute path names would be longer than approximately 66 characters.
> I.e., if Ithe current directory is
> 
>  /23456789/12345678/01234567/90123456/89012345/78901234/67890123/
> 
> then `mkdir 56789012' fails.

I'm pretty sure that's a limitation of DOS.  No path name can be longer
than 60-something characters.  :(
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Nate Eldredge
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