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Windows 10 May 2020 Update
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Re: Windows 10 May 2020 Update
Note that windows paths have many kinds of \\ escapes at the beginning of the path. The most wellknown is the unc path (\\server\share), but access to devices (\??\ or \\?\device\, and this one are wellknown too. See e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/230 ... efixes-and and MSDNjj2007 wrote:I've never used the \\.\ escapes, where do you need them?marcov wrote:the need to escape with \\.\ for the -W calls.
utf8 support in the terminal is also being worked on.
Paths over the win32 (260 char) limit. The NT limit after escaping with \\.\ is iirc 8192 chars.