module Windows
   module Limits
      MINCHAR  = 0x80
      MAXCHAR  = 0x7f
      MINSHORT = 0x8000
      MAXSHORT = 0x7fff
      MINLONG  = 0x80000000
      MAXLONG  = 0x7fffffff
      MAXBYTE  = 0xff
      MAXWORD  = 0xffff
      MAXDWORD = 0xffffffff
      
      # For wide character functions the actual path limit is actually 32k
      # for most functions that deal with paths, but in the interests of not
      # wasting huge chunks of memory on buffers I limit it to 1k, which
      # should be more than enough in practice.
      if $KCODE == 'UTF8'
         MAXPATH = 1024
      else
         MAXPATH = 256
      end
   end
end