From: "Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth.Nellis@acs-inc.com>
To: "cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: cygstart doesn't handle question marks in mailto URLs
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F2042D38B4@A1DAL1SWPES19MB.ams.acs-inc.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F75B4D7.8060407@cornell.edu>
From: Ken Brown
> 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.)
> What happens instead is that `recipient?subject=subject' shows up as
> the recipient, with the question mark replaced by something
unprintable,
> and the subject is blank.
FWIW, WJFFM --Ken Nellis
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-30 13:28 Ken Brown
2012-03-30 13:44 ` Ryan Johnson
2012-03-30 13:47 ` Ryan Johnson
2012-03-30 15:15 ` Corinna Vinschen
2012-03-30 16:05 ` Ryan Johnson
2012-03-30 17:52 ` Ken Brown
2012-03-30 19:08 ` Ryan Johnson
2012-03-30 19:52 ` Ken Brown
2012-03-31 16:39 ` Charles Wilson
2012-03-31 17:35 ` Ken Brown
2012-03-30 14:26 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2012-03-30 14:36 ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
2012-03-30 17:02 ` Nellis, Kenneth [this message]
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