Hello, Thank you for your replies. Yes, I am creating directories, or files - it does not seem to matter Take this simple example c:\>for /l I in (1,1,10) (md 1234567890 & cd 1234567890) never gets me any directories deeper than 250. Nor do other file or directory creation commands...

For quite some time, 4NT has been unable to handle EXTREMELY long path names. I know CMD isn't a saint here either, nor is explorer. However, some tools (e.g. JAR) seem to manage to create path hierarchies that go deeper than the traditional MAX_PATH length, and some tools (eg JAVA) have no...