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You've duked it out with OS/2 – but how to deal with these troublesome users? Nukem

MrDamage Silver badge

> I'm sure many a person here has groaned at the problems caused by too long filenames in DOS and early Windows

That problem is still there, only now it applies to the combination of folder and file names totaling more than 256 characters.

Anyone who has had to restore files for users who believe that the folder structure can have an infinite amount of characters, knows this pain.

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