Edward Blum wrote: > cannot send long-named file > "/cygdrive/d/Shares/Public/Software/Navision Backup/GB Nav > 4.0.SP3/Disk1/Additional Interfaces/BusinessNotificationServer/program > files/Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision/Business > Notification/Templates/en-GB/Template - Production BOM version - Items > updat" > > Reading up is it to do with a limitation of windows being 255 maximum > character set is there any way round this?
Note that most Windows programs (including Windows Explorer) will not be able to access files and directories whose paths exceed MAX_PATH, i.e. 260 characters (259 including null). This means that the actual utility of copying such files to the machine with a later version of Cygwin will probably be limited to manipulation solely with Cygwin programs. Details: The Win32 NT subsystem can handle them, by using the \\?\ pseudo-UNC syntax, but programs have to be written with that in mind. Most software written in C & C++, and also many Windows-specific RTLs of other languages, assume MAX_PATH to be the maximum file length and would actually crash if forced to handle a file longer than MAX_PATH. One way around the above issue would be to use a junction or similar to shorten filenames for other programs. -- Barry -- http://barrkel.blogspot.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/