Developer(s) | IBM, Microsoft, ReactOS Contributors |
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Operating system | OS/2, Microsoft Windows, ReactOS |
Type | Command |
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.