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Why on Earth Would you want to do that? <br />
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Why on Earth Would you want to do that?



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to shagun_kari:<br />
because i need to. this is something a programm i'm writing does. i don't go about trying to type mkdir for long names.
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to shagun_kari:
because i need to. this is something a programm i'm writing does. i don't go about trying to type mkdir for long names.

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to jkr:<br />
i'm talking about NTFS. is this the case there also?
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to jkr:
i'm talking about NTFS. is this the case there also?

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Yes, this is true for NTFS also. See <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/winbase/filesio_7qwj.htm" rel="ugc">http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/winbase/filesio_7qwj.htm</a>
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Yes, this is true for NTFS also. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/winbase/filesio_7qwj.htm [http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/winbase/filesio_7qwj.htm]

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Hello,<br />
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I've created 12 nested directories. Then I tried to create another one (in the 13th level) with a 200 character name. The mkdir command fails with a &quot;filename too long&quot; error.<br />
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Do you know why? How can I solve this (I can cut the name to smaller directories names, but I need to know the maximum length I can use)<br />
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Thanx,<br />
Ittay
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Hello,

I've created 12 nested directories. Then I tried to create another one (in the 13th level) with a 200 character name. The mkdir command fails with a "filename too long" error.

Do you know why? How can I solve this (I can cut the name to smaller directories names, but I need to know the maximum length I can use)

Thanx,
Ittay

mkdir failure

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