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On 4/19/2011 4:58 PM, Wm. David Bentlage wrote:
> Under cygwin 1.5, a new bash window is launched (per the man page).
> Under cygwin 1.7, I get an error.  I can open bash in cygwin 1.7 if I
> specify the full path to the bash executable.

cygwin-1.4.0:

* Support in cygstart for unicode arguments/filenames
  (from IWAMURO Motonori).

IIRC, part of this change affected how "bare" names (e.g. without paths)
were handled, to facilitate proper unicode support.

This may be relevant:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg01101.html
but I never got a patch.

I suspect this will need debugging for the 'bash' case, and an explicit
workaround for 'mailto:'.

PTC...

--
Chuck

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