info: about maximal path length on Windows

Lukáš Lalinský lalinsky at gmail.com
Wed Jan 31 10:05:02 GMT 2007


On St, 2007-01-31 at 11:57 +0200, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
[..]
> But anyway, very long filenames is possible to handle, with some limitations,
> if we want.

I really wouldn't recommend to use this. The problem is that neither
Windows Explorer nor the standard command line tools can't handle such
filenames. The only "workaround" to e.g. rename/delete such files is to
use the 8.3 versions of filenames.

-Lukáš





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