Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:00:43 +0200
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> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:09:18 -0400
> From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
> 
> It's in the NT 4 help file and MSDN.  FORCEDOS disables the OS/2
> subsystem (etc), forcing NT to run a program in a VDM even if NT
> wouldn't normally have recognized the program as an MS-DOS program.

Thanks for the info.

> I'm not sure why this would solve the W2K nesting problem, though.

I'm not sure; from your description it looks like it shouldn't.
However, we won't lose anything if we try...