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
