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Re: pathmax: support for native Windows


From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: pathmax: support for native Windows
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:33:12 +0200
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Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> You could use this syntax with win32 api. I used it for opening long
> path and it used byapache on windows. However it will need some
> surgery in order to be used (convert utf8 to ucs2)

Yes, and this surgery would be overkill for gnulib. 99.9% of all users
and applications never use filenames longer than 160 characters (two lines
in a terminal window).

Bruno
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