Andy> At 10:27 AM 10/16/01 +0100, Philip Aston wrote: Andy> RIght. It requires a C-code change in XEmacs becuase Andy> mswindows-shell-execute was broken under cygwin. Andy your C code change from 2001-10-25 Andy Piper <andy(a)xemacs.org&gt; (Fmswindows_shell_execute): fix cygwin handling of URLs. (syms_of_win32): add new function. for cygwin handling of URL's doesn't seem to do the right thing here: For example if calling mswindows-shell-execute with http://xemacs.org/Documentation/index.html I get the following in my running Netscape http://xemacs.org\Documentation\index.html/ which results in a error message about Illegal Characters in Request. My `browse-url-browser-function' is set to Value: (("^mailto:" . browse-url-mail) ("." . browse-url-default-windows-browser)) Here a couple of more examples: (mswindows-shell-execute "open" "http://xemacs.org") OK (mswindows-shell-execute "open" "http://xemacs.org/") broken -> http://xemacs.org\/ (in Netscape) (mswindows-shell-execute "open" "http://xemacs.org/Documentation/index.html/") broken -> http://xemacs.org\Documentation\index.html\/ (in Netscape) (mswindows-shell-execute "open" "file:///") OK (mswindows-shell-execute "open" "file://e:/temp/") OK (mswindows-shell-execute "open" "file:///temp/") OK (mswindows-shell-execute "open" "file:///dev/c/temp/") OK (mswindows-shell-execute "open" "file:///c/temp/") OK (mswindows-shell-execute "open" "file://c:/temp/") OK (mswindows-shell-execute "open" "ftp://vzell＠vzell/temp") broken -> ftp://vzell＠vzell\temp (in Netscape) Following my Mount-table: mount C:\gnu on /gnu type system (binmode) D:\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) D:\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) C: on /dev/c type system (binmode) D: on / type system (binmode) e: on /e type system (binmode,noumount) f: on /f type system (binmode,noumount) h: on /h type system (binmode,noumount) mount -p Prefix Type Flags / system binmode By the way all the functions in JDE which use browse-url seem to work OK. Andy> andy Ciao Volker