Alex, On 13 July 2012 21:21, Ryan Johnson <ryan.john...@cs.utoronto.ca> wrote: > On 13/07/2012 9:19 AM, Ryan Johnson wrote: >> >> Cygstart does not actually parse general URIs. For a long time it had a >> special case that tested explicitly for `http:', and recently added >> `mailto:' after a similar issue arose [1]. Ironically, most URIs seem to >> work precisely because cygstart *doesn't* know what to do with them and >> passes them along as-is, giving Windows a chance to do the right thing. > > Actually, you can probably ignore this and go with what Adam posted... At least you can use cygwin do find out the default browser to launch
$ cat /proc/registry/HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Classes/http/shell/open/command/@ "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -requestPending -osint -url "%1" $ You can use this info to create a script that would launch the browser with the argument file:///C:/somepath/doc/ref/chap31.htm#X84F59A2687C62763 (note that you might need to rename the files from .html to .htm) It should be doable, as at Windows command prompt the following works: C:\>"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" file://C:/tmp/chap39.htm#X79C44528864044C5 HTH, Dima -- 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
