Hello Jasen!
Quoting Jasen's message:
 RB>> And if I type "EXIT" nothing happens - I am not returned to a MS-DOS
 RB>> prompt.
 JB> ooh... (I guess I guessed wrong)
It does not matter that you guess that wrong, the facts that you gave me 
about what was being loaded at boot-up directed me in the right path...  ;)
 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
 JB> I'm guessing (again...) that /D disables the regular Autoexec.Bat (or
 JB> whatever)
I don't know what the second /D switch does but I know that the regular 
AUTOEEXEC.BAT is ot loaded...
 RB>> C:\4DOS @C:\4DOS\4DOS.INI /F /D /K C:\4DOSEXEC.BTM /D /K AUTOEXEC
 JB>                               --------------------- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 JB> It seems that the O/S puts it in (^^^) to kill the regular boot process,
 JB> this requires your solution of overriding it (---)
I have check what was put during the boot-up process and, no matter what is 
being done, MS-DOS v7.0 puts the "/D /K AUTOEXEC".
 JB> Maybe /D stops a primary shell from booting "autoexec"
It appears so...
Thanks anyway for the information you gave me.
Sincerely, Raymond Beriau.
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