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I believe that it's only FAT that is limited to 255 characters but many programs may have that limit too.


We covered this one a while ago.

Most applications (including Windows Explorer) use _MAX_PATH for their path name buffers. It's defined as 260, which is enough room for the C:\ part, 256 letters and the terminating NULL.

Which is odd, because FAT -- IIRC, and as you say -- only supports 255-character filenames.
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