RB>Hello Bill!
RB>Quoting Bill's message:
 BD> However, DOS 7.0 and later has the ability to use "Exclusive Mode"
 BD> which transparently rewrites CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT and reboo
 BD> the machine using those files in place of the originals (which are
 BD> saved under different names for reversion when the exclusive-mode
 BD> DOS session is complete).
RB>To your knowledge, is there a way to switch-off the 
RB>Exclusive Mode or is that permanently built in MS-DOS v7.00?
Hi, Raymond.  The support for "Exclusive Mode" is built into the
versions of IO.SYS shipped with MS-DOS 7.0 (W95/W95A) and
MS-DOS 7.1 (W95B/W95C)
I am not aware of any way to disable the "Exclusive Mode"
functionality -- nor to interfere with or reprogram the
Exclusive Mode capabilities.  This feature is hard-coded
into IO.SYS.
Best I can do for now. 
Bill
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