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Re: Problems with the the length of names and Windows

From: Kevin Greiner <greinerk_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2006-09-03 12:58:16 CEST

On 9/3/06, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn@gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> Not quite correct: pathnames on NTFS can be up to 32kbytes long. But the
> shell (i.e. explorer, desktop) can only deal with pathnames up to
> MAX_PATH characters (which is defined as 256).

Thanks for the clarification. Anyone know if Vista allows paths > 256? A few
minutes googling didn't turn up anything useful.
Received on Sun Sep 3 12:58:26 2006

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