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From:	"Wm. David Bentlage" <slomium+cygwin AT gmail DOT com>
Date:	Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:58:18 -0500
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Subject:	cygstart, mailto: URLs, and launching an executable
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Hi,

What's the reason for the following change in cygstart between cygwin
1.5 and 1.7?=C2=A0 Can the cygwin 1.5 behavior be restored?


ai016aadm01 AT app-stl-33 ~
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.2 app-stl-33 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57 i686 Cygwin

ai016aadm01 AT app-stl-33 ~
$ cygstart -v mailto:
ShellExecute(NULL, "(null)", "mailto:", "(null)", "(null)", 1)

ai016aadm01 AT app-stl-33 ~
$ cygstart -v bash
ShellExecute(NULL, "(null)", "bash", "(null)", "(null)", 1)



ai016aadm01 AT app-stl-33 ~
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.2 app-stl-33 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10 i686 Cygwin

ai016aadm01 AT app-stl-33 ~
$ cygstart -v mailto:
ShellExecute(NULL, "(null)", "W:\home\m278638\mailto=EF=80=BA", "(null)", "=
(null)", 1)
Unable to start 'W:\home\m278638\mailto=EF=80=BA': The specified file was n=
ot found.

ai016aadm01 AT app-stl-33 ~
$ cygstart -v bash
ShellExecute(NULL, "(null)", "W:\home\m278638\bash", "(null)", "(null)", 1)
Unable to start 'W:\home\m278638\bash': The specified file was not found.


Under cygwin 1.5, I could open a new email in the default application
using "cygstart mailto:".=C2=A0 Under cygwin 1.7, I get an error.
Performing "cygstart mailto://" will get cygwin 1.7 cygstart to
recognize mailto: as a URL instead of a file, but that's not proper
mailto: URL syntax.

Under cygwin 1.5, a new bash window is launched (per the man page).
Under cygwin 1.7, I get an error.=C2=A0 I can open bash in cygwin 1.7 if I
specify the full path to the bash executable.

Thanks,
Dave B.

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