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    I suspect that the OP had a DOS port of Diffutils installed, and thus
    Windows invoked them thru the DOS shell COMMAND.COM, which indeed has
    that 126-char limit.  If that's true, the solution is to install a
    native Windows port of Diffutils.

Is this the case?