!start not being found on vim command line

Question

Windows command line has this command start that executes the argument with the default program. This is not an executable so I cannot just set it to path. If so, is there a way for me to run it from gvim command line? !start returns:

C:/cygwin/bin/bash -c "start"
/usr/bin/bash: start: command not found
shell returned 127
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and if I include any arguments, I get

E371: Command Not Found

Answer 1

Internal cmd.exe commands can be executed with:

cmd /c whatever

(where whatever is the command)

However, given that's a pain to type in, I'd consider creating a go.cmd (for example) batch file to do the work for you.