Re: path name limits

"Arkady V.Belousov" <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Oct 2002 23:40:00 +0400 (MSD)

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X-Comment-To: Michael Honeyfield

HI!

24-Окт-2002 07:31 [email protected] (Michael Honeyfield) wrote to
[email protected]:

MH>     What are tha path name limits imposed on freedos? MS-DOS has 66 and
MH> DR-DOS has 63, I need a few more :(.

     Any _DOS_ (should) limits _path_ to 67 characters and name to 8.3
characters. This gives 67+\+8+.+3=80 characters for full path.

MH> Also I there any nested subdirectories limits?

     No, only on path length. This mean, that you can't have more than
(67-C:)/2=65/2=32 levels (where 2 is one for backslash and one for directory
name itself). This limit causes troubles when you try to access more lengthy
path, created on network or under Win9x (especially when some apps like
Photoshop makes very deep nesting with long names in C:\PROGRA~1).

MH> I believe MS-DOS has a limit of 11.

     Wrong beliving.