Re: Installing WDSCi 6.0 from a network: use mapped drive

wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 04/09/2006 02:33:02 PM:

> Probably a variant of the problem I reported with the fix packs Reeve. 
i.e.
> Eclipse has an inbuilt problem with paths > 256 chars.  When something 
like
> the path you had prefixing the already long path it all gets too much 
for
> the poor thing!

I think this is actually a Windows API limitation.  I have seen other 
non-Eclipse products that can run into this problem.  Windows supports 
much longer paths than 256 characters at the file system level but there 
are some Windows API's that still do not.  For example see:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q177665/
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.57363.29

Mark


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