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Re: cygstart.exe can't open file:///C:/
- From: Juan Miguel Navarro MartÃnez <juanmi dot 3000 at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 03:10:38 +0200
- Subject: Re: cygstart.exe can't open file:///C:/
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Even if it's similar to Windows command-line, you are still in a POSIX
system, and Cygwin use /cygdrive/ for all the drive letters.
So for file:///C:/ you should use file:///cygdrive/c/
On 2016-07-04 at 01:51, Gene Pavlovsky wrote:
> cygstartâs manpage says itâs similar to the Windows command-line start command.
> It is indeed able to open http://example.com in the default browser.
> However, cygstart file:///C:/ results in an error message:
> Unable to start 'C:\cygwin\cï\': The specified file was not found.
> The Windows start command opens file:///C:/ links in the default
> browser without a hitch.
>
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