Vista - Illegal Character in the path

Hi ...

I have a situation where I'm using the \\?\UNC\ prefix to display
directories /files that are over 256 characters . So I'm trying to use
Get-Childitem then the path \\?\UNC\Server\Share but it doesn't like the ?
character . I tried escaping it but it doesn't work ... Anyone know of a way
to do this ?


Thanks Much

Chris

I think I found my answer ... seems like the cmdlet doesn't like the ? in the
path but if you use it in the File system object path it works just fine .


For example after creating your file system object (FSO)

$folder = fso.getfolder("\\?\UNC\Server\Share")


Hope this helps someone .

Chris
"Chris" wrote:

That's a special format that most .NET API's can't use anyway because of
various reasons like MAX_PATH being 260 chars, backwards compatibility with
FAT32, etc. Since under the hood PowerShell is probably using the API's in
System.IO namespace, that's probably why you're outta luck.

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