Ugh, good point. It is indeed pathetic that restriction still exists in Windows Vista/7.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 3:34 AM, Matthew Chambers <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:matt.chambers42@gmail.com">matt.chambers42@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On 5/19/2011 12:26 PM, Joshua Boyce wrote:<br>
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Why does the build system not use the wide/Unicode APIs under Windows? This would allow use of paths<br>
up to (approx) 32767 characters long...<br>
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Pathetically, Windows Explorer can&#39;t even browse/manipulate paths longer than MAX_PATH. So I&#39;d say that&#39;s not a good idea.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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-Matt<br>
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