Subj : Re: About the maximum full path string length.
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Vladimir Grigoriev
Date : Tue Aug 30 2005 06:55 pm

Thank you Gary.
While I have been waiting answers from the forum I have looked through
internet and have found information about long file names in DOS. As I have
understood I can use long file names in DOS. There is such DOS int 21h
function as 71h. It allows you to deal with long file names. For example in
my XP system I have NTFS. So I need preserve 260 bytes for full file
specification.
If you run Command prompt box on XP and try to create a directory with
ordinary DOS command MKDIR you will see that you can create directories with
names of more than 11 characters. So I think DOS replaces standard int 21h
functions with 71h function while you are working with DOS commands.

Vladimir Grigoriev


"Gary Setter" <setterg@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:431458d7$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> "Vladimir Grigoriev" <vlad.moscow@mail.ru> wrote in message
> news:431433ed@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > Hi.
> <SNIP>
> > 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
> >
> Hi Vladimir,
> I think you are looking for the _MAX_PATH macro which is defined in the
> stdlib.h file.
> Best regards,
> Gary
>

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