One of the lesser known features of the command shell of modern MS Windows (i.e. Win 95 and beyond) operating systems is the start command. In short this is a way to start an application with various options like Run Maximized or have it be a high priority task. Even lesser known is that you can have it "start" data files and they will load up the default application for that file type. Example:
start tea.jpg
Will launch the application that is associated with JPEGs. It was with this in mind that I ran into weird behavior today. I have a jpeg with a space in the filename. You would expect that the following would work:
start "the tea.jpg"
Except that it doesn't. What happens is a new command shell window opens up.
Frustrating isn't it.
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