Hello Jonathan!
Quoting Jonathan's message:
 JP> Look at the 4DOS on-line help for starting 4DOS, and note the
 JP> circumstances it describes in which the /D switch is passed to 4DOS by
 JP> DOS+Windows 95. If you set Debug=1 in your 4DOS.INI you will notice that
 JP> DOS+Windows 95 often uses a command tail of "C:\4DOS /D /K AUTOEXEC" to
 JP> start the command processor in such situations.
I looked at the information and started playing with the /D and /K switches.
I was finally able to obtain what I have been trying (ie: not calling/loading 
AUTOEXEC.BAT) and loading 4DOSEXEC.BTM immediately. I don't know why I am now 
able to do that because 4DOS tells me that it tail is:
    C:\4DOS @C:\4DOS\4DOS.INI /F /D /K C:\4DOSEXEC.BTM /D /K AUTOEXEC
With the following SHELL line in CONFIG.SYS, I am able to load 4DOSEXEC.BTM 
directly/immediately without having to load AUTOEXEC.BAT first.
Thanks for putting me in the right direction...  :)
Sincerely, Raymond Beriau.
           Co-Moderator 4DOS
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