That smells like a DOS limit, not a Perl limit. Under WinNT and later, you can use paths like "//?/e:/..." or "//?/UNC/server1/e/users/..." to turn off path parsing to use paths larger than 260 characters. But I don't think there is a way to do that for chdir() -- just via CreateFile() (see Win32API::File).

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")