Hi Brian, Thanks for your swift reply! I see there are release candidates flying about for 1.7 reckon they would be stable enough to try them out or would I be better waiting for a stable release? Is there some where I can find the release cycle?
Ed 2008/8/30 Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Edward Blum wrote: > >> The scenario is: Ubuntu machine running rsnapshot ssh's into remote >> machine running cygwin 2.6.9 on windows 2003 and uses rsync to backup >> the files. The error I get is: > > There is no such version of Cygwin. You are referring to the version of > rsync. > >> Reading up is it to do with a limitation of windows being 255 maximum >> character set is there any way round this? > > If you've searched the archives then surely you have also read that > Cygwin 1.7.x supports a PATH_MAX of 4096, so the workaround is to wait > until 1.7 is released. > > Brian > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
