Windows limitations on file and path name

Submitted by Sergey on January 2, 2008 - 02:26 UTC
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The limitations have been pulled from Windows SDK header file

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* 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

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