veloearl Wrote: 
> I would expect a string in Perl could contain well in excess of 261
> characters, so it should be feasible to validate the length of the path
> before attempting to test for the presence of the file.
Yes, the problem is how to write the function 

will-all-interfaces-between-here-and-the-file-system-allow-this-filespec(fs)

considering that the file may be housed locally or on a SAN or a NAS or
a different operating system over a network share.


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