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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE comref SYSTEM "comref.dtd">

<comref>
  <header>
    <copyright>
      <year>1999</year><year>2016</year>
      <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
    </copyright>
    <legalnotice>
      Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
      you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
      You may obtain a copy of the License at
 
          http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

      Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
      distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
      WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
      See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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    </legalnotice>

    <title>start</title>
    <prepared>Kent Boortz</prepared>
    <responsible></responsible>
    <docno></docno>
    <approved></approved>
    <checked></checked>
    <date>1999-12-15</date>
    <rev></rev>
    <file>start.xml</file>
  </header>
  <com>start</com>
  <comsummary>OTP start script example for Unix.</comsummary>
  <description>
    <p>The <c><![CDATA[start]]></c> script is an example script on
      how to start up the Erlang system in embedded mode on Unix.</p>

    <p>For more information about the use, see the
      <seealso marker="doc/embedded:embedded_solaris">
      Embedded System User's Guide</seealso> in System Documentation.</p>
  </description>

  <funcs>
    <func>
      <name>start [ data_file ]</name>
      <fsummary>Example script on how to start up the Erlang system in embedded
        mode on Unix.</fsummary>
      <desc>
        <p>Argument:</p>
        <taglist>
          <tag><c>data_file</c></tag>
          <item>
            <p>Optional. Specifies what <c><![CDATA[start_erl.data]]></c> file
              to use.</p>
          </item>
        </taglist>
        <p>Environment variable <c><![CDATA[RELDIR]]></c> can
          be set before calling this example, which sets the directory
          where to find the release files.</p>
      </desc>
    </func>
  </funcs>

  <section>
    <title>See Also</title>
    <p><seealso marker="run_erl"><c>run_erl(1)</c></seealso>,
      <seealso marker="start_erl"><c>start_erl(1)</c></seealso></p>
  </section>
</comref>