Hello all !

Francesca wrote :

> I was wondering if someone can help me. I work for a small company and
> we (8 people) file and use documents on our server. What we use is the
> typical directory structure. I believe this is begining to give us
> problems.
>
> We need do have quite a number of levels in our directory system and
> very long file names. Recently for some files we have not been able to
> use the same number of characters in the file name and in some cases
> we have not been able to add further directories.
>
> Does anybody know if this is dependent on the number of existing
> levels and length of file name?

The Posix path name is limited to 1,024 characters. If you access documents
from the shell, that's ok. If you access documents from the CI, the complete
command line, including parameters, is limited to 511 characters. I am not
aware of a limitation on the number of levels.

Hope this helps.
Christian Lheureux
Responsable du Département Systèmes et Réseaux / Head of Systems and
Networks Department
APPIC R.H.
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