Hi

I have a problem using Archive::Zip on Windows Server 2003.

The problem is that when doing an "addTree" Archive::Zip walks the tree using File::Find which in my case dies in a particular directory because it fails to do chdir ../../../../../../../../../../../..

The interesting thing now is that when I open a cmd.exe-shell and navigate to this directory and try to do a "cd ../../<and so on>" it also fails, so it seems to me I am running into a Windows-specific limitation.

The path-length of the directory where this problem occurs is 225 characters and the length of the ../..-part is 35 characters, so together it is 260...

I have made some experiments and it seems to me that on Windows if you are in a directory and you try to do a "cd <upwards-only>" then that fails if the pathlength of the directory plus the path-length of the upward-path exceeds 260 (or so).

Is that really true?

If that is the case, how would you work around it when using Archive::Zip or File::Find?

Many thanks!

In reply to File::Find problem on Windows by morgon

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