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From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder@niaid.nih.gov>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: open IE from command line
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 14:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6CF2FC1279D0844C9357664DC5A08BA21C15B35B@msgb09.nih.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0D835E9B9CD07F40A48423F80D3B5A704BBD5B0F@USA7109MB022.na.xerox.net>

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Nellis, Kenneth sent the following at Wednesday, December 21, 2016 9:11 AM
>Thanx to all who responded to my query...
>> On 12/20/16, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
>> > How to open a web page (remote or local) or launch IE from the
>> > mintty/bash command line?
>
>I've tried all the suggestions and the same thing happens: IE flashes on
>the screen and immediately disappears. Indeed, IE is my default browser.
>
>I suspect the issue is that some required DLLs are not in my PATH.
>Indeed, my Cygwin PATH is a pruned version of my Windows PATH.

If you have a Windows shortcut to IE, try
cygstart "C:\[path to shortcut]\Internet Explorer.lnk"

For the record, these work for me:
cygstart "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" 
cygstart "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" "http://www.google.com" 

- Barry
  Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.


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  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-21 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-20 16:15 Nellis, Kenneth
2016-12-20 17:20 ` Lee
2016-12-20 22:10   ` cyg Simple
2016-12-20 22:51   ` Andrey Repin
2016-12-20 23:32     ` Eliot Moss
2016-12-21  0:50       ` Lee
2016-12-21 14:11   ` Nellis, Kenneth
2016-12-21 14:46     ` Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] [this message]
2016-12-21 16:14     ` Lee
2016-12-21 17:01     ` Nellis, Kenneth
2016-12-22  1:04       ` Doug Henderson
2016-12-22  1:25         ` Doug Henderson
2016-12-22 13:43           ` Nellis, Kenneth
2016-12-22 13:54             ` cyg Simple
2016-12-22 13:51         ` cyg Simple
2016-12-22 14:26           ` Nellis, Kenneth
2016-12-22 15:51             ` Andrey Repin
2016-12-22 20:56               ` Nellis, Kenneth
2016-12-22 18:14             ` Brian Inglis
2016-12-21  7:30 ` Brian Inglis

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