[Bug: 21.5-b28] browse-url fails to start default browser on MSWin

[Anders J. Munch]

>From Aidan Kehoe [mailto:kehoea at parhasard.net]
>  Ar an triú lá de mí Aibréan, scríobh Anders J. Munch: 
> 
> Process error: Running ShellExecute, "Den angivne fil blev 
> ikke fundet.", "open", "http://xemacs.org/"
> 
> That~s ~The specified file could not be found~, right? 

Yes.

> 
> I see weirdness with ShellExecute and Firefox on a fairly 
> regular basis,


I changed the default browser to MSIE6, rebooted, and tried
again. No difference.

> 
> Can you try some of the integer values for SHOWFLAG in
> #'mswindows-shell-execute, to see if they make a difference? 

No difference. Same error message - for all values.

> 
> Does (mswindows-shell-execute "open" "www.xemacs.org") behave 
> differently?

No difference. Same error message.

> It doesn~t for me, but start http://www.xemacs.org/ and start www.xemacs.org
> from the command line do, so it might be worth tring. The usage string for
> START mentions ASSOC and FTYPE, but they don~t seem to have anything to do
> with URLs. 

Both
C:\>start http://www.xemacs.org/
and
C:\>start www.xemacs.org
start the browser with no errors.

- Anders