Win 98SE is DOS 6.2....not DOS 7.1.
I'd like to query that. I have a hazy recollection of what was named Dos 7.1 being distributed on-line having been extracted from Windows 98se by Wengier Wu and his team at the China Dos Union. It's still available for download but from a different source.
The following quote is from
this site and clearly mentions Win 95 and Win 98 and Dos 7.0
There is almost no difference in the relationship between Windows 95/98 and it's hidden DOS 7.0 and Windows 3 and DOS 6
So, is the underlying Dos version in Win 98se version 6.2 or 7.0 or were versions of 98se available with both Dos versions. Would MS have used Dos 6.2 in Win 98se when Dos 7.0 was already in use with Win 95?