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If I type `cygstart mailto:recipient?subject=subject' at a Cygwin bash 
prompt, I expect my default Windows mail program to start an outgoing 
message with `recipient' as recipient and `subject' as subject.  (This 
is what happens if I type the same URL into a `Start Menu -> Run' box.) 
  What happens instead is that `recipient?subject=subject' shows up as 
the recipient, with the question mark replaced by something unprintable, 
and the subject is blank.

Is this a bug in cygstart, or am I misunderstanding something?

My reason for asking this is that I'm testing xdg-utils, which is 
currently available in Cygwin Ports but which will probably be added to 
the Cygwin distro at some point.  I would like xdg-open to be able to 
handle mailto URLs correctly if I export BROWSER=cygstart.

Ken

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