long path names on windows prefixed with \\?\ not handled by svn commands

[Heinz Prantner]

Hello,

running svn client commands other than svn checkout on windows fail,
if the path name (of the local working copy location) is prefixed  
with \\?\.
The prefix is required for path names longer than  255 or so.
It seems that svn commands like svn info or svn status behave different
than svn checkout command regarding the path name prefix.

example:

svn info \\?\c:\long\path\name
svn: '\' is not a working copy

Any thoughts?

(I am using svn client version 1.6.11 from CollabNet)

Thanks,
Heinz