@Allan Fernandes, Just for clarification, do you want to use filenames greater than 255 characters **within** zip files or are you concerned about addition/extraction of files where the external path is greater than MAX_PATH (260 characters)? -- James Turner. On 04/09/2012 23:19, RPeters wrote: > On 4/09/2012 8:11 PM, Allan Fernandes wrote: >> Hi Russell , >> >> You will be aware that Windows allows handling of long file names (more than >> 255 chars) with \\?\ being preceded to the file path. I can Explore/Copy etc >> with this. I made 20 indented folders in my machine each with the name >> 'abcde12345' and reached 200 chars, then I shared the last folder and went >> to another machine and using the share name created another 20 indented >> folders with the same name. Finally made a file in the last folder and tried >> to zip that. >> Many customers are now having files like this and also due to unicode it is >> inevitable. Please advice. >> >> Warmest Regards >> Allan Fernandes >> >> ----------- >> To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty e-mail >> message to: >> delphizip-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> and put the word unsubscribe in the subject. > I am keeping it in mind as I have had problems with the 'normal' limit a > number of time but the problem mostly lies with the dll C++ code which I > am working on removing (mainly because of 64bit). > It is taking time but eventually I hope to get there. > Russell Peters > ----------- > To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty e-mail > message to: > delphizip-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > and put the word unsubscribe in the subject. > ----------- To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty e-mail message to: delphizip-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and put the word unsubscribe in the subject.