Subj : Re: long path problem To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : "Tim Jackson" Date : Sat Aug 23 2003 12:34 am I once installed BC5 in some place like C:/engineering/programming/bc5 and it didn't work very well because of this sort of problem. In my case the easiest solution was to reinstall bc5 in its default location in the root directory. It mostly gave problems with linking in the IDE, and I often had to use the command line to invoke the linker If it is just a particular include directory with a very long pathname, there are a few things you could do. One would be to copy your include files to your working directory or to BC5/INCLUDE Another would be to move or copy the whole directory somewhere more convenient, eg to BC5/INCLUDE If the include files are shared on a network and unmoveable, then you could map a drive letter directly to the include directory. As Andrue Cope pointed out you can also use the DOS command SUBST to map an unused drive letter to a directory on your own drive, click "Start", Run..." and type eg SUBST F: C:\MYINCLUDEPATH SUBST F: /D to remove it again If the problem is due to the aggregate of include directories in the IDE, on the source path line in Project/Options/Directories, rather than the length of an individual path, then you could merge some of the directories or name them directly in the #include statement eg. #include Tim Jackson "Reddy" wrote in message news:3f45d3bf@newsgroups.borland.com... > hi > every body > i have a very long include file path.so i am not able to build my project .. > is there any way to solve this > regards > vijay pothireddy > > .