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Windows limitations on file and path name

By Sergey - Posted on January 1st, 2008

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The limitations have been pulled from Windows SDK header file

This is sample code. Add error handling and adjust to your requirements as necessary.

&& Maximum length of full pathname 
#define MAX_PATH   260 
&& Maximum length of path component 
#define MAX_DIR    256 
&& Maximum length of file name component
#define MAX_FNAME  256 
&& Maximum length of extension component
#define MAX_EXT    256