This should be done internally already, e.g. in the Perl code and by the Rpwd.exe we use. The problem is to anticipate everything people might actually try.
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Warnes, Gregory R wrote: > > The cygwin 'cygpath' command can now convert arbitrary windows and unix > paths into the short ms-dos 8.3 equivalents. This tools might allow the > windows build system to better deal with those messy long Windows file and > directory names that contain spaces. > > EG: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: src [1]$ pwd > /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/WarnesGR/My > Documents/cygwin_home/src/gregmisc/src > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: src [1]$ cygpath -d "`pwd`" > c:\DOCUME~1\WarnesGR\MYDOCU~1\CYGWIN~1\src\gregmisc\src -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
