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RE: cygstart doesn't handle question marks in mailto URLs
- From: "Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth dot Nellis at acs-inc dot com>
- To: "cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:02:06 -0500
- Subject: RE: cygstart doesn't handle question marks in mailto URLs
- References: <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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