Cgywin filename with 255 character

[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, must each be less than 260 characters, including
the 3 chars of 'C:\' for the windows version and the full  path from
root for the cygwin version. If you want to access long filenames via
a cygwin path, make sure you mount the directory such that the cygwin
mountpoint is at least as short as the windows path of the mountpoint.

Lev

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