The standard U.S. household wiring design has two 120 volt hot wires and a neutral which is at ground potential. The two 120 volt wires are obtained by grounding the centertap of the transformer supplying the house so that when one hot wire is swinging positive with respect to ground, the other is swinging negative.
Thus the name of a file or directory can be up to 255 characters. When specifying the full path under Windows, you need to prefix the path with \?\ to mark this path as an extended-length one (~32k characters).o be precise: NTFS itself does impose a maximum filename-length of several thousand characters (around 30'000 something). However, Windows imposes a 260 maximum length for the Path+Filename. The drive+folder takes up at least 3 characters, so you end up with 257.
LRECL. Here is a SAS trick that is especially useful for Windows users. By default, Windows creates files with a logical record length of 256. This means if you are creating a flat file with records (lines) longer than 256, the lines are going to wrap.You can tell Windows exactly how long to make the record length on the filename statement in SAS.lan, I think you are right. For some reason I just assumed it was Windows creating the file with lrecl=256, but that doesn't really make sense. I create files all the time in other languages and don't run into that problem. I agree with you, it must be the way SAS is creating the file under Windows.