On 3 Oct 2002 at 17:07, Graeme Stewart wrote:
> [*] Actually 255 characters, but the ".extension" has to be matched too. I
> know that extensions are always 3 characters, but I wasn't sure if this
> would always be necessarily so (and couldn't be bothered finding out).
An extension, if any, can be any portion of the 255 characters permitted in
the pathname on a VFAT or NTFS file system (260 characters if you include
the drive name). You can also have multiple "extensions," since a period is
a legal character in a filename.
See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
us/dnfiles/html/msdn_longfile.asp
