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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: Then there's PATH_MAX
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 07:10:51 -0500
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 22:42:48 -0500, DFS wrote:
>
>> Surely you know NTFS supports file paths up to 32,767 characters?
>
> HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
>
> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14500893/is-the-255-char-limit-for-filenames-on-windows-and-unix-the-whole-path-or-part>

That's about 11 years old; have Windows applications basically caught up?

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