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Bug ID: 4700220
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Synopsis Support for filenames longer than 259 characters on Windows
Category java:classes_io
Reported Against 1.4.0_01
Release Fixed
State 11-Closed, duplicate of 4403166, request for enhancement
Priority: 3-Medium
Related Bugs 4699450 , 4403166
Submit Date 11-JUN-2002
Description
Java runtime does not support access to file names (file paths) longer than 259 characters on Windows.

Windows platform now has support for filenames upto nearly 32000 characters through UNC names. Please see the following MSDN link for more information --

http://msdn. customer .com/library/en-us/fileio/storage_7mn9.asp

The longer names are supported in Windows CreateFile function.

For a test case, please see the attachment.
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