cygstart.exe can't open file:///C:/

[Juan Miguel Navarro Martínez]

Even if it's similar to Windows command-line, you are still in a POSIX
system, and Cygwin use /cygdrive/ for all the drive letters.

So for file:///C:/ you should use file:///cygdrive/c/

On 2016-07-04 at 01:51, Gene Pavlovsky wrote:
> cygstart‘s manpage says it’s similar to the Windows command-line start command.
> It is indeed able to open http://example.com in the default browser.
> 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.
> 
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