Start (command)

start
Developer(s)IBM, Microsoft, ReactOS Contributors
Operating systemOS/2, Microsoft Windows, ReactOS
TypeCommand

In computing, start is a command of the IBM OS/2,[1] Microsoft Windows[2] and ReactOS[3] command-line interpreter cmd.exe[4] (and some versions of COMMAND.COM) to start programs or batch files or to open files or directories using the default program. start is not available as a standalone program. The underlying Win32 API is ShellExecute.

The command is also one of the basic commands implemented in the Keyboard Monitor (KMON) of the DEC RT-11 operating system.[5] The TOPS-10[6] and TOPS-20[7] operating systems also provide a start command. It is used to start a program in memory at a specified address.

  1. ^ "JaTomes Help - OS/2 Commands". Archived from the original on 2019-04-14. Retrieved 2019-07-06.
  2. ^ "MS-DOS and Windows command line start command".
  3. ^ "Reactos/Reactos". GitHub. 3 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Start". Microsoft Learn. 2021-11-12. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
  5. ^ "Rt-11 Help File". Archived from the original on 2018-07-17. Retrieved 2018-07-16.
  6. ^ TOPS-10 Operating System Commands Manual (PDF). Digital Equipment Corporation. August 1980. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-08-09. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  7. ^ "TOPS-20 Command manual" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-08-09. Retrieved 2018-07-18.