On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 08:31:58 -0400, Stan Horwitz <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote:

>
>On Tru64 Unix and Mac OS X 10.4.x, the pathname is at least 500
>characters. At least, that's how for I got when I tested this a few
>weeks ago. When I tried it in Windows NT and 2003, Windows would not
>allow me to exceed the path length. So I am wondering how people
>manage to create files on a Windows server that exceed the path length.
>
I've seen this created simply by using relative path addressing rather 
than absolute path addresses eg cd to folder whose path length is say 240 
chars long then create a subfolder 20 chars long absolute path to folder 
is now 260 chars long. I've yet to see an OS that checks that a file or 
folder created by relative path methods exceeds the absolute path limit. I 
think in SunOS the limit is 1023 chars.

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