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'legacy code' Category

• Oct

  14

  2009

  Windows MAX_PATH limitation

  While writing my last post, I stumbled across the definition of MAX_PATH on Windows:
  1#define MAX_PATH 260
  That’s right, Windows path lengths are limited to 260 chars. I would have expected a lot of problems in big production systems with this limit. Luckily, there is an article in the Microsoft knowledge base with the solution:
  …, select the [...]

  posted in legacy code, windows by admin