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RE: cygpath bug (windows 2000)


> Sent: 27 February 2004 10:43 From: Christian Matuszewski 
..snip..
> > 
> > Try the latest snapshot <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>.
> > 
> > 
> 
> Thank you very much, now cygpath doesn't crash anymore.
> 
> But is it necessary, that cygpath gives the error message:
> cygpath: error converting "/ddd...ddd" - File or path name too long  ?
> When i think of cygpath as a tool to convert strings, then it 
> should work
> with paths of arbitrary length.
> Is this possible?

Unless Microsoft have changed something there is a maximum path length of
255 on windows so cygpath working with arbitrary length strings is a bit
pointless.

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