Rikard Bosnjakovic wrote:
> On 14/04/2008, John Coppens <john@jcoppens.com> wrote:
> 
>> Note that even Windows gets worked up on multiple dots at some point. I
>>  had W trying to rename .tar.gz files to other variants with all the
>>  resulting problems (hidden 'cause windows hides the extensions by
>>  default). So the problem may not be entirely Microchip's.
> 
> With hidden extensions, anything bad can happen. That's why you unhide
> the extensions.
> 
> For the sake of testing, renaming an image "foo.png" too
> "foo.bar...doodledoo.png" resulted in zero problems here.

Doesn't prove anything.
The particular part of the MPLAB toolset that
is used when building absolute mode code might
still have that problem (just as the max
path lenght problem).

Jan-Erik.
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