diff --git a/src/drake/steps.clj b/src/drake/steps.clj
index 914c263..207b9d5 100644
--- a/src/drake/steps.clj
+++ b/src/drake/steps.clj
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
 
 ;; No way to get to MAX_PATH from Java
 ;; Leave some characters for unique suffixes and for files inside
-(def ^:private MAX_PATH 200)
+(def ^:private MAX_PATH 1024)
 
 (defn calc-step-dirs
   "Given the parse-tree, calculate each step's directory for keeping