Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:16:00 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Information Message-ID: <199806261516.IAA09611@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199806260723.AAA01750@ix.netcom.com>
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>Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 00:23:28 -0700 (PDT) >From: Thomas Dean <tomdean@ix.netcom.com> >If you are referring to file names other than the 8.3 used by DOS or >Windows, then FreeBSD supports file names up to something like 256 >characters. That is, each component of a pathname can be up 255 characters (see definitions of MAXNAMLEN in /usr/include). (The maximum usable length for a pathname tends to be somewhat application-dependent, if I recall correctly.) david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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