shorten path to files

[Mike Driscoll]

On Jun 27, 8:01 am, cesco <fd.calabr... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to retrieve the content of some files which are placed on a
> network drive so in order to open them I need the full path to the
> file.
> Unfortunately some times the path is longer than 256 characters and in
> Windows such a path is too long with the result that the file is not
> found (though it is there).
>
> Is there any way around this?
>
> Thanks
> Francesco

Map a drive to the path or if the path is to a Linux box, create a
symbolic link.

Mike