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Microsoft Windows NT Build 297 06-28-1992

 Sample: Starting a Process at a Given Priority

Summary:

This sample demonstrates how to start a new process at a
given default priority. It is a functional replacement for
the "start" command, but with added features.

More Information:

Starts a separate windows to run a specified program.

STARTP [/Ttitle] [/Dpath] [/h] [/l] [/min] [/max] [/w] [/c]
[program] [parameters]

  title      Title to display in window title bar.
             Quote the entire paramter to include
             spaces in the title, i.e. startp "/Ttest
             job"
  path       Starting directory
  h          Set default to high priority
  l          Set default to low priority
  min        Start window minimized
  max        Start window maximized
  w          Wait for started process to end before
             returning control to the command
             processor. This option starts the process
             synchronously
  c          Use current console instead of creating a
             new console.
  program    A program to run as either a GUI
             application or a console application
  parameter  These are the parameters passed to the
  s          program.

Note that the priority parameters may have no effect if the
program changes its own priority.

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