Barry Buchbinder sent the following at Friday, March 30, 2012 10:23 AM >Ken Brown sent the following at Friday, March 30, 2012 9:28 AM >>If I type `cygstart mailto:recipient?subject=subject' at a Cygwin bash >>prompt, I expect my default Windows mail program to start an outgoing >>message with `recipient' as recipient and `subject' as subject. (This is >>what happens if I type the same URL into a `Start Menu -> Run' box.) the >> What happens instead is that `recipient?subject=subject' shows up as >>recipient, with the question mark replaced by something unprintable, and >>the subject is blank. >> >>Is this a bug in cygstart, or am I misunderstanding something? >> >>My reason for asking this is that I'm testing xdg-utils, which is >>currently available in Cygwin Ports but which will probably be added to >>the Cygwin distro at some point. I would like xdg-open to be able to >>handle mailto URLs correctly if I export BROWSER=cygstart. > >Using "&" instead of "?" does what you want with both cygstart and >Windows' "run". Remember to escape the "&" when using cygstart.
Sorry for an incomplete post: With Outlook 2010 on W7. YMMV. Hope that helps, - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
