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Re: Error dealing with long pathnames in Win32

From: SRE <eckert(at)not-real.climber.org>
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 17:42:34 GMT
At 09:13 AM 2/19/02, David L Norris wrote:
>Reading through MSDN now...  OFS_MAXPATHNAME is 128 bytes on Windows
>(any version).

Not true. I just created a 250-char file name on WinNT 4.
The limit there is said to be 256 characters, and spaces
are legal along with most other characters - all but these:
   / \ : * ? " < >  |

Steve
Received on Tue Feb 19 17:42:50 2002