On Jul 6, 2006, at 8:16 AM — 7/6/06, Wolfgang Fischer wrote:

On 05.07.2006, at 20:07, Stan Horwitz wrote:

. I used a Mac workstation with OS X 10.4 to also create a file with a long path length and it had no problem with 500 characters. I tried to zip the folder at the base of that long path name and unzip it on Windows and it would not let me.

So your question reminds me of something I am curious about, how can Windows files with long path be created in the first place?

Traditionally on Unix you can do something like

while :
do
(mkdir x; cd x)
done

You might need a syntactic variation and I have not run that for some time. It may or may not crash your system horribly and unrecoverable. It certainly creates a path longer than 1024 (or 4096 the limit on Linux). You will end up with ENAMTOOLONG errors afterwards. Getting rid of that thing is a different story, and if you crashed your root partition and your OS you might even be out of luck with fsck. But the amount of disaster varies with OS.

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