Dragan,

I'm aware of and understand all of what you are saying...I'm taling about running a command prompt *after* windows is up and running. If you run two command prompts, they have separate memory spaces, right? Aren't each of them running under win.exe at that point?

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>Nope, it's win.exe running from DOS7. If you have a machine to spare, create a W98 boot floppy, then install DOS from it to this new machine and reboot. You may need the rest of the \windows\command directory, and then you may just run that as any old DOS box. And one of the better versions of DOS at that. Includes himem.sys, setver, emm386.exe and other stuff, it's all available.
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>Likewise, boot your W98 machine command prompt only. You can run any DOS stuff while you're there. You can even type WIN and launch Windows.
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>>WinNT/W2K/XP does not involve DOS in the process, and WinME allegedely had removed the DOS real-mode from the boot process.
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>That's right, though I don't know about ME, and don't want to know :)