Thread: The names again
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Old 12-15-2013, 03:19 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
I believe the general rule of thumb is no Windows filename PATH can be longer than 256 characters.
I can't speak to linux but the shortened path has a little to do with Windows path limit. Kovid has a finite length limit built in that reduces the names as seen by the OP.

Here is a thread that explored the path reduction when version 1.0 was released.

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