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Old 03-06-2019
@ works fine in BASH, it's your application that throws up. What exact application are you launching? Whose implementation of VNC on what system?

Since this looks like a URL, does it support URL encoding, i.e. could you put %40 instead?
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jds-help(1)							   User Commands						       jds-help(1)

NAME
jds-help - launch a Help browser based on the GConf ghelp URL handler SYNOPSIS
jds-help [URL] [gnome-std-options] DESCRIPTION
jds-help launches a Help browser based on the GConf ghelp URL handler. The GConf key for the handler is /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/ghelp/command. Typical values for this key are: yelp "%s" jdshelp "%s" If a URL is specified, jds-help displays the topic referenced by the URL. The URL must be a ghelp URL. If no URL is specified, jds-help displays a default document as implemented by the specified Help browser. By default, both jdshelp and yelp display a collection of most of the installed documents. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: gnome-std-optionStandard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more information. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: URL Uniform Resource Locator, the location of a Help topic. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Opening the gedit Online Help example% jds-help ghelp://usr/share/gnome/help/gedit/C/gedit.xml EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Application exited successfully >0 Application exited with failure FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/jds-help Executable for jds-help application ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-* | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |External | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. jdshelp(1), yelp(1), gnome-std-options(5) NOTES
Written by Laszlo Kovacs, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004. SunOS 5.10 14 Oct 2004 jds-help(1)
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