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   Kerr Mudd-John to All   
   Re: finding out length of directories   
   05 May 15 10:31:44   
   
   From: admin@127.0.0.1   
      
   On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:22:37 -0000, Herbert Kleebauer    
   wrote:   
      
   > On 19.01.2015 05:07, Marcel Verduyn wrote:   
   >   
   >> yes, it probably said that a path was too long.   
   >> I will make use of DIR/? to find out for which paths this is the case.   
   >> Kind regards, Marcel   
   >   
   > But maybe it was not the source path but the destination path which   
   > is to long. This can happen if you copy the whole drive d:\*.*   
   > to a backup directory  h:\backup_19_01_2015_16_17\*.*   
   >   
   > First try a shorter destination path e.g. h:\1\*.*   
   > or use SUBST to assign a drive letter to h:\backup_19_01_2015_16_17\   
   > and copy to this drive.   
   >   
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