Re: History behind 30 character name limit?

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 04:59:48 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <31c93e34-b49d-4987-83b1-005b6f9970d0@n36g2000hse.googlegroups.com>


On Mar 6, 2:46 pm, Thomas Kellerer <YQDHXVLMU..._at_spammotel.com> wrote:
> gazzag, 06.03.2008 14:59:
>
> > However, many years ago I was on a Windows NT course (don't ask) and
> > someone in the group asked the trainer if Microsoft had overcome the
> > "limit" of allowing a maximum of 256 characters in a filename.
>
> I think it's actually 256 character for a _path_name, which using deeply nested directories can easily be reached.
>
> Thomas

like (from the wonderful world of app server)

/u01/app/oracle/as10g/j2ee/oc4j_app/application_deployments/ oc4j_app_default_island~1/application.log

with similarly deeply nested logs in similarly long directories.

Niall Received on Sat Mar 08 2008 - 06:59:48 CST

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