Re: Cgywin filename with 255 character

2006-07-25 Thread Linda Walsh
Jörg Schaible wrote: Is there any pointer at MS, where this is described exaclty? I was only able to find some entries in the knowledge base that describe applications that are affected by this limit, but nowhere an explanation under what circumstances a process/application is hit by this

Re: Cgywin filename with 255 character

2006-07-11 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Xiaomin Wu wrote: Hello, I have problem to touch a file with 255 charaters long filename in Cygwin client (MKS client works fine). After remove 2 of them, it seems work fine. Could you explain why? Thanks a lot! sh-3.1$ pwd /cygdrive/c sh-3.1$ touch

Re: Cgywin filename with 255 character

2006-07-11 Thread Lev Bishop
On 7/11/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Windows places a limit on the number of ASCII characters in a file/path name. It's approximately 260 characters. Cygwin path conversion may cut that down a bit. More precisely, both the windows version of the path, and the posix version of the path,

RE: Cgywin filename with 255 character

2006-07-11 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi Larry, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:50 PM: [snip] Windows places a limit on the number of ASCII characters in a file/path name. It's approximately 260 characters. Cygwin path conversion may cut that down a bit. Is there any pointer at MS, where this is

Re: Cgywin filename with 255 character

2006-07-11 Thread Lev Bishop
On 7/11/06, Jörg Schaible wrote: Is there any pointer at MS, where this is described exaclty? I was only able to find some entries in the knowledge base that describe applications that are affected by this limit, but nowhere an explanation under what circumstances a process/application is

Re: Cgywin filename with 255 character

2006-07-11 Thread George
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 06:01:40PM +0200, Jorg Schaible wrote: Hi Larry, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:50 PM: [snip] Windows places a limit on the number of ASCII characters in a file/path name. It's approximately 260 characters. Cygwin path conversion may cut