From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 26 08:16:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA23056 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:16:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA23004 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:16:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA09611 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:16:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:16:00 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199806261516.IAA09611@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Information In-Reply-To: <199806260723.AAA01750@ix.netcom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 00:23:28 -0700 (PDT) >From: Thomas Dean >If you are referring to file names other than the 8.3 used by DOS or >Windows, then FreeBSD supports file names up to something like 256 >characters. That is, each component of a pathname can be up 255 characters (see definitions of MAXNAMLEN in /usr/include). (The maximum usable length for a pathname tends to be somewhat application-dependent, if I recall correctly.) david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message