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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:

> What I meant to say is that there's a possibility that the presence of
> "//" in the file name causes some cygwin magic kick in that is
> supposed to transform cygwin-style file names to Windows-style, even
> though the argument to the browser is a URL, not a file name.

I think either that, or Firebird works differently under W32 than
Unix (eg using DDE instead of command line options), and browse-url
is coded to assume the command-line options will work.