From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9361 invoked by alias); 13 Jul 2012 12:06:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 9340 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Jul 2012 12:06:28 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from twopi.mcs.st-and.ac.uk (HELO mcs.st-and.ac.uk) (138.251.192.161) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:06:14 +0000 Received: from 8afbf3ff.st-andrews.ac.uk (8afbf3ff.st-andrews.ac.uk [138.251.243.255]) (authenticated bits=0) by mcs.st-and.ac.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q6DC6CNm023666 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:06:12 +0100 From: Alexander Konovalov Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Open URLs with # using cygstart.exe Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:06:00 -0000 Message-Id: To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-07/txt/msg00264.txt.bz2 Dear Cygwin experts, I am trying to open the exact location in the html file using my default browser with the command of the form cygstart.exe file:///C:/somepath/doc/ref/chap31.html#X84F59A2687C62763 However, the anchor is ignored, so instead of going to the exact location it opens the file and stays on the top of the page. I didn't manage to find anything on Web, except the discussion about handling '?' in URL on March 30-31 this year, but it doesn't help. Is there any workaround to handle '#' in URLs? Thanks, Alexander -- 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