On 8/24/06, Cade Cairns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although I'm sure you'd desperately love to find new reasons to hate > Windows, I'm pretty sure this limitation is due to CD-ROM standards, > NOT Windows. > > Nice try though. >
After some browsing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iso9660#ISO_9660:1999 Maybe it is a little bit of both :-D "ISO 9660:1999 is the latest update to the ISO 9660 standard. It improves on various restrictions imposed by the old standard, such as extending the maximum path length to 207 characters, removing the eight level maximum directory nesting limit, and removing the special meaning of the dot character in filenames. This has not seen general adoption in operating systems until around 2004, but developers are generally starting to catch onto the standard." -Mark P.S. I did not do more than 3 minutes of research, so I'm sure there are many more explanations of why windows is not letting you have really long path names. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
