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From: "Mark Wood-Patrick" <mlwp@pacbell.net>
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Subject: File or path name too long
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 06:13:52 -0800
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I am getting the error message "File or path name too long" due to the
insanely long names my companies build system generates. Is the maximum
length of a path hardcoded in cygwin. Is there any way to configure cygwin
to support longer filenames?





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