Where you perchance operating within a subdirectory when trying this? A subdirectory with a path that itself contains 248-219 = 19 characters?

This is a similar (but simpler) experiment conducted in the root of a drive: 

>perl -E"say($_), mkdir '1'x$_ or die $^E for 240 .. 255"
240
241
242
243
244
245
The filename or extension is too long at -e line 1.

>dir 1*
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 8C78-4B42

 Directory of c:\

14/06/2010  16:32    <DIR>          1111111111111111111111111111111111
+111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
+111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
+11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
14/06/2010  16:32    <DIR>          1111111111111111111111111111111111
+111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
+111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
+111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
14/06/2010  16:32    <DIR>          1111111111111111111111111111111111
+111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
+111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
+111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
+1
14/06/2010  16:32    <DIR>          1111111111111111111111111111111111
+111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
+111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
+111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
+11
14/06/2010  16:32    <DIR>          1111111111111111111111111111111111
+111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
+111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
+111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
+111
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               5 Dir(s)  363,706,941,440 bytes free

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In reply to Re^4: Path and File Name Maximum Lengths by BrowserUk
in thread Path and File Name Maximum Lengths by merrymonk

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