Perforce Trigger No Spaces

Entering the following Perforce trigger

FogBugzTrigger change-submit //... "cscript.exe C:\Program Files\Perforce\logBugDataP4.vbs %changelist% %serverport% %client%"

generates this error:

Input Error: There is no file extension in "C:\Program".

This is because the path contains a space (the path is breaking on the first space encountered, after "Program").  To fix this in Windows, you can use the Windows 8.3 filename, which has no spaces:

• Replace "C:\Program Files" with "C:\PROGRA~1"
• Replace "C:\Program Files (x86)" with "C:\PROGRA~2"

If your filename has other spaces in it, or the above do not work, you can find the 8.3 filename of any directory by doing the following:

1. Go to Start > Run
2. Type "cmd" and click "OK"
3. Type "cd c:\sub\folders" to the folder BEFORE the one you want to check the filename for (e.g. to find the filename for "C:\Program Files", type "cd C:\"
4. Type "dir /x" and look for row with the folder name you want.  In the same row is the 8.3 filename (it should look something like "PROGRA~1")

You'll have to do this for each directory in your path that has a space in the title.  So, for example, to find the 8.3 path of "C:\Program Files\Perforce 2005.2" you would do the following:

1. Type "cd c:\"
2. Type "dir /x"
3. Look for "Program Files" and find that it's 8.3 path is "PROGRA~1"
4. Now I have the path "C:\PROGRA~1"
5. Type "cd c:\PROGRA~1"
6. Type "dir /x"
7. Look for "Perforce 2005.2" and find that it's 8.3 path is "PERFOR~1"
8. Now I have the path "C:\PROGRA~1\PERFOR~1"
9. Enter that path in the trigger script.

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