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Subject: Re: cygstart.exe can't open file:///C:/
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 18:10:26 +0000 (UTC)
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Gene Pavlovsky <gene.pavlovsky <at> gmail.com> writes:
> On 4 July 2016 at 04:10, Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez <juanmi.3000 <at>
gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2016-07-04 at 01:51, Gene Pavlovsky wrote:
>>> cygstart‘s manpage says it’s similar to the Windows command-line start
command.
>>> However, cygstart file:///C:/ results in an error message:
 Unable to start 'C:\cygwin\c\': The specified file was not found.
>>> The Windows start command opens file:///C:/ links in the default browser
without a hitch.

> Juan, thanks for this, it does work. (on my system I setup `cygdrive` to
be `/mnt` using fstab, though).
> But I think the C:/ syntax should be supported as well. After all, `ls
C:/` works correctly on Cygwin.

cygstart file://C:/ works - read the MS DN and MS KB articles on file URIs
and shlwapi