X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: Barry Kelly To: eddy.blum@gmail.com Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: rsync in cygwin Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:40:24 +0100 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1117 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id m7UJfIsd024234 Edward Blum wrote: > cannot send long-named file > "/cygdrive/d/Shares/Public/Software/Navision Backup/GB Nav > 4.0.SP3/Disk1/Additional Interfaces/BusinessNotificationServer/program > files/Microsoft Business Solutions-Navision/Business > Notification/Templates/en-GB/Template - Production BOM version - Items > updat" > > Reading up is it to do with a limitation of windows being 255 maximum > character set is there any way round this? Note that most Windows programs (including Windows Explorer) will not be able to access files and directories whose paths exceed MAX_PATH, i.e. 260 characters (259 including null). This means that the actual utility of copying such files to the machine with a later version of Cygwin will probably be limited to manipulation solely with Cygwin programs. Details: The Win32 NT subsystem can handle them, by using the \\?\ pseudo-UNC syntax, but programs have to be written with that in mind. Most software written in C & C++, and also many Windows-specific RTLs of other languages, assume MAX_PATH to be the maximum file length and would actually crash if forced to handle a file longer than MAX_PATH. One way around the above issue would be to use a junction or similar to shorten filenames for other programs. -- Barry -- http://barrkel.blogspot.com/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/