ERIC HO wrote:
Hi there, I've been using cygstart to start chm and pdf files with no problems
until a few days ago. Now I'm getting The specified file was not found when
using cygstart on a file. I updated a few the cygwin packages last week. Not
sure whether this has something to do with it. I can provide a output of strace
too if required. Thanks.
Hmm, that is weird indeed...
Can you still open the files in question by double-clicking them in
Windows Explorer? If not, then it appears to be something wrong with
your Windows installation.
Does the problem occur with full paths? e.g., does this work?
$ cygstart /full/path/to/myfile.pdf
Does this only affect certain extensions, or all file types? For
instance, does this work?
$ echo hello > hello.txt; cygstart hello.txt
How about URLs? Does
$ cygstart http://www.cygwin.com/
still work?
The only thing in a 'strace' that might be helpful here, is the path
conversion. Can you do something like:
$ strace cygstart myfile.pdf | grep myfile.pdf
and check if the converted Windows filename (C:\blah\blah) is correct?
If the above doesn't help, we'll need more information. Can you follow
the "Problem reports" link below, and attach cygcheck output?
- Michael
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