I notice that I can open Word with 'Start Winword.exe' but the command
doesn't wait for Word to be ended. I put the >command in a .bat and that
way the i5 waits for Word to end. What's happening here exactly?
'start' by default does not block (i.e. wait for the process to finish),
but it can be made to do so with: 'start /wait winword.exe'.
When you stick it in a .bat file, you are invoking cmd.exe directly, and
it does block by default. Note that you can also over-ride this
behaviour with a comand line switch as well: 'cmd /c something.bat'.
Although it will only exit if the started processes were native windows
apps, it will still wait for DOS apps to finish.
Typically, 'start' is intended to start native windows programs, while
'cmd' is still the default command shell.
Here's a more in depth description of the two commands:
http://www.ss64.com/nt/cmd.html
http://www.ss64.com/nt/start.html
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