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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 10:16:08 +0200 (METDST)
From: Arne Glenstrup <panic AT diku DOT dk>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: mkdir chokes on `i386-msd' directory name
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Hi again,


I'm sorry to say that my problem description was rather vague; it turned
out that the real problem was in using `mkdir' for directories whose
absolute path names would be longer than approximately 66 characters.
I.e., if Ithe current directory is

 /23456789/12345678/01234567/90123456/89012345/78901234/67890123/

then `mkdir 56789012' fails.

I believe similar things apply to `rm -r'. I am doing all this from bash,
and have not tried gmkdir yet.

Regards,

---Arne
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Arne John Glenstrup                 mailto:panic AT diku DOT dk
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