Re: Converting paths with spaces

2013-01-22 Thread Jonathan Rogers
Benjamin Lau wrote: > command.com changed to cmd.exe at some point in the last decade or > two... maybe that's an NT and later thing... > Actually, they coexisted for a long time. NT did add cmd.exe as a native program but continued to include command.com for backward compatibility. Not surprising

Re: Converting paths with spaces

2013-01-22 Thread Benjamin Lau
command.com changed to cmd.exe at some point in the last decade or two... maybe that's an NT and later thing... Ben On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Scott Evans wrote: > Slide, > > Yes, that would do pretty much what I needed, if I weren't needing to run > this on a Win-7 x64 box which doesn't h

Re: Converting paths with spaces

2013-01-22 Thread Scott Evans
Slide, Yes, that would do pretty much what I needed, if I weren't needing to run this on a Win-7 x64 box which doesn't have command.com on it. In any event, since my original email, we've decided that since it's a "bad thing" to have spaces in project names (especially when we're multi-os), that

RE: Converting paths with spaces

2013-01-22 Thread Todd Greer
January 22, 2013 10:10 AM To: 'jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com' Subject: RE: Converting paths with spaces You mean like C:\PROGRA~1? I don't think 8.3 conversion exists any more. I think it went out with Windows 95. Can you surround the argument with double-quotes? --Rob Fro

Re: Converting paths with spaces

2013-01-22 Thread Jonathan Rogers
Slide wrote: > Is [1] what you are looking for? > > slide > > 1 > - > http://www.andypemberton.com/engineering/windows-short-file-name-shortpath-in-ant-task/ > I should have known better than to reply to a question about Windows brain damage. -- Jonathan Rogers

Re: Converting paths with spaces

2013-01-22 Thread Slide
Is [1] what you are looking for? slide 1 - http://www.andypemberton.com/engineering/windows-short-file-name-shortpath-in-ant-task/ On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:19 AM, JonathanRRogers wrote: > On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:54:40 AM UTC-5, SA Evans wrote: >> >> Within my ant build script, I have

Re: Converting paths with spaces

2013-01-22 Thread JonathanRRogers
On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:54:40 AM UTC-5, SA Evans wrote: > > Within my ant build script, I have a legacy program that is failing > because the workspace name has a space in it, and so it's failing as the > whole path isn't getting passed in as an argument to this program. It > really isn

RE: Converting paths with spaces

2013-01-22 Thread Mandeville, Rob
You mean like C:\PROGRA~1? I don't think 8.3 conversion exists any more. I think it went out with Windows 95. Can you surround the argument with double-quotes? --Rob From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Evans Sent: Tuesday, Janua