Need help with TCP/IP client access from Windows

[Eric S. Raymond]

Mike Fletcher <mcfletch at vrtelecom.com>:
> About the only way I know to do this at all reliably...
> 
> import os
> os.system( 'start %s'%url )
> 
> Which does whatever the user has defined as the proper thing to do with
> urls, normally, launch IE or Netscape.

Really?  That sounds perfect.  Just for my information, what is `start'?
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