Greetings, Brian Inglis! > Gene Pavlovsky <gene.pavlovsky <at> gmail.com> writes: >> On 4 July 2016 at 04:10, Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez 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 Which isn't quite right. "file:" is a protocol, "//" is the foreign host mark, "[.]/" is "current host's filesystem root". So, I guess, the CORRECT solution (or, rather, workaround) would be an explicit "." in host name. cygstart "file://./C:/" Works here. Please try it yourself. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, July 7, 2016 17:29:00 Sorry for my terrible english...