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

[Warren Young]

On Jul 5, 2016, at 12:10 PM, Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca> wrote:
> 
> 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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