Re: [classlib] Warning - our long paths can be a problem for WinXP

[David Tanzer]

FYI, from http://linuxboxadmin.com/articles/filefriction.php :


A lot characters are wasted if the default storage location is used:
"C:\Documents and Settings\USER\My Documents\".

Regards, David.

On 20.07.2006, at 07:53, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:

Windows file names can be up to 255 characters, but that includes the full path.

It's hard to imagine I'm writing this in 2006, but it seems that our
paths in classlib, plus a root directory that is some number of

WinXP.

I'm not completely sure, but after battling what appeared to be

root, the problem immediately disappeared when I moved to "C:\tmp".

Just an FYI.

geir

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directories from c:, can be so long that svn and other tools choke under problematic .svn/tmp directory problems on a svn checkout with a 'deep'

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