The open command will only open the file. What you
need to do is use the start command.
[autorun]
open=start start.html
Either that or use the open=whatever.bat then in
the whatever.bat have it do the start command.
How can I suppress the DOS-Box when Start opens a document?
Because I haven't found an good freeware program, I have witten
autorun.exe (freeware) by myself.
It opens the first document it finds in the following search order:
autorun, start, index and ReadMe with
extension html, htm, doc, wri and
txt.
Now I have found one, it's called
Autorun,
written by Steven Blackburn.
It opens the document given as command line parameter.
In the c't magazine I have read about
shelexec,
written by the evil-doer Microsoft.
The usage is the same as Autorun from Steven Blackburn: