Try using single quotes around the value and then double quotes to take are of the imbedded space
<exec dir=' "c:\This is a long file name"\file.txt' > ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Leonard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 3:00 PM Subject: problem with commandlines > I started to build one of the other Jakarta projects when it puked at the > javadoc section. I've tracked it down to the fact that arguments with > spaces in them don't get quoted, so things like docTitle="Test Arg" confuse > javadoc (and I'm assuming every other command that parses args the same > way). I'm guessing this isn't a problem on windows, but my unix machine > doesn't like it. > > Seems they should be quoted in > ... types.Commandline.Argument.setValue(String) > The toString() method of Commandline does the right thing, but it never gets > called. I'd be happy to add it myself, as I could just steal what's there > already in toString(). > > -bl
