8.3 conversion still exists in Windows 8, at least in cmd.exe (I tested it). I googled "find 8.3 folder name" and found http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1333589/how-do-i-transform-the-working-directory-into-a-8-3-short-file-name-using-batch, which provides what appears to be an excellent answer if you're willing to hand the work to a batch script. If for some reason it doesn't work, you could also just hard code the altered path.
-- Todd From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mandeville, Rob Sent: Tuesday, 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 From: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com<mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com> [mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Scott Evans Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:55 AM To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com<mailto:jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com> Subject: Converting paths with spaces 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't a solution at this time to change the project name to one without spaces, so I'm wondering if anyone has any quick/dirty suggestions on how to convert, within Ant, a path which has spaces in it into an 8.3 type path. Thanks! Scott The information in this message is for the intended recipient(s) only and may be the proprietary and/or confidential property of Litle & Co., LLC, and thus protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify Litle & Co. immediately by replying to this message and then promptly deleting it and your reply permanently from your computer.
