From: Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: mkdir chokes on `i386-msd' directory name
Date: 13 Oct 1998 12:38:28 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:

: On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Arne Glenstrup wrote:

: > 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.

: This is a known and well-documented limitation of DOS.  The problem is
: not only with the length of the pathname, it's also with the nesting:
: DOS cannot handle pathnames more than 8 levels deep and more than 64
: characters long.

: Btw, Windows 9X removes these limitations.

Well, it increases the maximum length of an absolute file name,
doesn't it? 


Right,

							MartinS