Subj : About the maximum full path string length.
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Vladimir Grigoriev
Date : Tue Aug 30 2005 03:25 pm

Hi.
I don't know where to ask my question by I think this is the right place as
many of C-programmers must know an operation system detalies. I am asking
this question as I don't know how much memory I need to allocate for storing
full path specification.
If you will look through Microsoft Programmer Reference for DOS version 5.0
you will find that DOS function Get Current Directory (or path) returns a
string with length of 64 characters which contains a full path specification
starting from root directory and without leading slash. But if you start
command prompt box in Windows XP you can create subdirectories with total
specification length much more than 64 characters.
It is interesting What is the maximum path string length? Is any reference
in internet where I could read about new features of DOS functions in XP
environment?
Vladimir Grigoriev

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