Those 260 chars are a limit of Windows since the old ages. There are some tricks for breaking the barrier, by using the (most times) shorter aliases of longer names (I used that trick in deepcopy), but it does not help forever.

Why do you thing you need names that long? Do you put information into the filename that belong elsewhere? Use a meta-data file, or stuff the data into a database.

Alexander

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In reply to Re: Filenames beyond 260 chars in Perl on WinXP by afoken
in thread Filenames beyond 260 chars in Perl on WinXP by ienne

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