Why "start" doesn't work
Sunday, February 6, 2005 at 4:29 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by David Spector
(1 messages posted)
If you read the documentation of "start" you will see that the first argument is
the title of the new command window that "start" creates.
If you omit the first argument, you may get a cmd window that stays in interactive
mode, waiting for you to type "exit". Or you may get a command window that stays
on the screen for a fraction of a second then disappears without doing anything.
Sometimes you can get the same effect as "start /wait" (except not redirecting command
output away from the current window) by adding "&" at the end of the command in the
batch file.
David
On Tuesday, February 4, 2003 at 6:58 am, Chris (Hunt) wrote:
>I have a question about Run
>a Shortcut from the Command Prompt:
>
>Does this work with windows XP? I can't launch a lnk from within a batch file -
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