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Re: cygpath bug (windows 2000)
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 08:45:18 -0500
- Subject: Re: cygpath bug (windows 2000)
- References: <476AFB33B6D50B4286FB94A671FC779E03924C@COXML1.cox.co.uk>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:22:38AM -0000, Hughes, Bill wrote:
>> Sent: 27 February 2004 10:43 From: Christian Matuszewski
>>cgf says:
>>>Try the latest snapshot <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>.
>>
>>Thank you very much, now cygpath doesn't crash anymore.
>>
>>But is it necessary, that cygpath gives the error message: cygpath:
>>error converting "/ddd...ddd" - File or path name too long ? When i
>>think of cygpath as a tool to convert strings, then it should work with
>>paths of arbitrary length. Is this possible?
>
>Unless Microsoft have changed something there is a maximum path length
>of 255 on windows so cygpath working with arbitrary length strings is a
>bit pointless.
Correct.
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