Creating paths longer than 255 chars

TAKAHASHI Motonobu monyo at monyo.com
Tue Apr 16 17:27:18 MDT 2013


From: Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:12:52 -0700

> Hi folks,
> 
> This document: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa365247(v=vs.85).aspx
> 
> suggests that you can create paths longer than 255 chars under Windows
> using the \\?\UNC\server\share\path syntax, however I have not found
> an easy was to do that.
> 
> Does anyone know of a simple way to do so?

Long time ago I created a set of commands that handle the long paths:
  http://www.monyo.com/technical/products/lfnutils/lfnutils-1.0.lzh
  http://www.monyo.com/technical/products/lfnutils/

  Sorry for Japanese page, but the source codes are written in English.

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