This argument doesn??™t actually set any
variables. What it does is display the position of each potential setting within the file so that you
can use the /A and /R arguments with greater ease.
/D delimiters Defines the delimiters used to begin and end settings entries within the file.
The default settings include space, tab, carriage return, and linefeed. You can use any ASCII
character as a delimiter. The maximum number of delimiters, including the default delimiters,
is 15.
Executing Applications Using the Start Command
Many of the commands and utilities discussed so far in this book wait until they complete a task
before they return control of the command prompt to the user. A common way to handle this problem,
when the application supports it, is to ask it to return immediately and continue working in
the background. The only problem with this approach is that you aren??™t sure that the command or
utility completed successfully. The Start command helps you overcome this problem by creating
a new window for the command or window to run in. The command or utility still controls the
command prompt until it completes, but since it runs in another window, the user can continue
working.
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