Windows "start" - but most likely a Windows terminal emulator would use
the ShellExecute function to start an external browser session.
About 6 months ago I was working on compiling Info-Zip (c source code).
Wiki claims it is "The Third Most Portable Program in the World", so
you can imagine all the #ifdef's in that code. Very difficult to work
with.
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
OS X "open"
Solaris "gnome-open"
Linux "xdg-open"
Cygwin "cygstart"
Windows ?
A dismaying lack of portability. One might imagina a chain of
#ifdefs ...
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