Exceeding the windows API MAX_PATH limit

[Laurens Holst]

Op 20-04-12 16:44, Adrian Buehlmann schreef:
> On 2012-04-20 14:48, Noel Grandin wrote:
>> On 2012-04-20 14:42, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:
>>> And how do you plan to handle these files with Explorer?
>> subst.exe
> subst won't help with deleting files with reserved names at all and I
> can easily construct paths with lengths where even subst won't be able
> to help anymore.

Explorer can not handle them, but can’t del and rmdir on the command line?

Also there’s the old short 8.3 file name associated with each file that 
you can use to remove the file, you can find it using dir /x.

~Laurens