Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 12:43:31 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Arne Glenstrup <panic AT diku DOT dk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: mkdir chokes on `i386-msd' directory name
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On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Arne Glenstrup wrote:

> 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.

This is a known and well-documented limitation of DOS.  The problem is
not only with the length of the pathname, it's also with the nesting:
DOS cannot handle pathnames more than 8 levels deep and more than 64
characters long.

Btw, Windows 9X removes these limitations.