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The Directory Name Is Too Long
Name: morrison_45241 Date: May 6, 2003 at 07:30:48 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 CPU/Ram: 2GHz/522,232 KB RAM
Comment:
I am search a folder with 317 sub folders. I recieve the following error "The directory name is too long". I am using the following command dir *.exe /b/s > C:\temp\results.exe Is there away around this without digging into the folder path? DOS seems to only go 60 some characters deep into a folder path.
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