RB>  JB> ah!, that looks right, DOS is loading 4dos in secondary shell mode
RB> And if I type "EXIT" nothing happens - I am not returned to a MS-DOS
ooh... (I guess I guessed wrong)
RB> prompt.
JB> What does the /D switch do? (nothing here)
RB> I just used it because it was being used by MS-DOS v7.0 when I tested
RB> booting my system without neither CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
I'm guessing (again...) that /D disables the regular Autoexec.Bat (or 
whatever)
RB>     C:\4DOS @C:\4DOS\4DOS.INI /F /D /K C:\4DOSEXEC.BTM /D /K AUTOEXEC
                                     --------------------- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It seems that the O/S puts it in (^^^) to kill the regular boot process, this
requires your solution of overriding it (---)
Maybe /D stops a primary shell from booting "autoexec"
Bye.
                        
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