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Subject: Re: cygstart.exe can't open file:///C:/
From: Warren Young <wyml@etr-usa.com>
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Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 19:56:57 -0600
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On Jul 5, 2016, at 12:10 PM, Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca> wrote:
> 
> cygstart file://C:/ works

Right.  The extra leading slash is causing the POSIX to DOS command conversion to effectively give you $(cygpath -m /c:/) rather than what you expected, which was $(cygpath -m c:/)

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