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Re:Announcing .NET Core and ASP.NET 5 RC by tsuraan on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @11:54AM (#10588913)
I thought windows allowed this already with some sort of weird UNC path spec. Instead of "c:/program files/whatever", you'd do "//?/c/program files/whatever", and then it lets you use really long paths. Or is that not right? I'm just going off vague memories and [0]; I'm really not a windows guy.

[0]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...

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Re:Announcing .NET Core and ASP.NET 5 RC by ashmud on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @12:46PM (#10589336)
That's the idea, however this does not automatically make programs actually work with long paths. Command Prompt is a prime example, at least on Windows 7.
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Re:Announcing .NET Core and ASP.NET 5 RC by poizan42 on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @12:42PM (#10589309)
Yes Windows has allowed this since at least NT 4.0 with the \\?\ prefix. But the .NET filesystem apis didn't allow you to use the prefix.
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