X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_NEUTRAL,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <5000DB73.1020300@cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 22:37:39 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Open URLs with # using cygstart.exe References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-CORNELL-SPAM-CHECKED: Pawpaw X-Original-Sender: kbrown@cornell.edu - Fri Jul 13 22:37:46 2012 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 7/13/2012 9:02 AM, Alexander Konovalov wrote: > so maybe cygstart parses > its argument differently dependently whether it starts with file:// or http://? That's correct. And before you waste too much time on this, you should make sure that you have the latest cygutils package installed. The behavior of cygstart with respect to file:// URLs changed starting with cygutils-1.4.10-1. See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html and http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2012-03/msg00246.html . Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple