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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