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