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Answer» Upon "Start /?" in a command line Windows XP responds with START ["title"] [/Dpath] [/I] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/SEPARATE | /SHARED] etc. etc.
Your documentation is identically wrong. Would you please fix it.
It should READ :- START "[title]" [/Dpath] [/I] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/SEPARATE | /SHARED]
The actual title is optional - the quotes are sometimes mandatory.
This works Start /LOW program
This does NOT work Start /LOW program parameters That results in a dos error complaining that it cannot find file "parameters" but after closing the error box it then runs the specified program. It cost me a lot of time and experimentation before I found quotes were essential, i.e. no problem with Start "" /LOW program parameters
My proposed correction is quite pedantic, but is essential and would have saved me a lot of effort. This correction is very subtle and some people may fail to notice the implication of what is excluded from the [], so I would SUGGEST it be supplemented with an explanation, perhaps detailing when the quotes need to be INCLUDED or when they may be omitted.
NB I only report my observations upon what I had to do to use this command - I am probably blissfully IGNORANT of other "gotchas" with this command. I found this problem with Windows XP Home Edition and Service pack 3.
Alan
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