The start command on SQLplus

Hello everyone,
Working on 10g/windows
I opened a SQL*plus from a DOS prompt, to launch a file from a start command.
but when launching the command, nothing works.
Example:
SQL> start file_name.sql
nothing runs !!, surprising!!
With the same file, the start file_name.sql works for some databases 10g and behaves as above on some.
What could be the reason fot this?
Thanks

Sorry, I cannot provide the contents of the script
for copyright reason.Create a test case.
One might be to create a file called 'test.sql' in the same directory as the script you are running. The contents of the file would be
SELECT SYSDATE FROM DUAL;
Run the file by 'START TEST.SQL' and see what happens.
May I should contact the provider to look at?Good idea.

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