IBM's pc dos is cheaper:

http://www-3.ibm.com/software/os/dos/

but shouldn't the backward license still prevale - if you are licensed for win 95 or later you are licensed for DOS? (I know if you but a 2003 license you can legally run 2000 in its place)

AOL used to add their own ip stack but they do not do that anymore - I believe 9 does have a built in firewall - which will keep other PCs from attaching. I have never had any luck running AOL on a business workstation. It seems to cause some problem - usually when you do not have any time for it. T...

samba.org is a great resource - or you could download a nfs client on your winders box and mount drives (a lot less configuration). depending on how your brother installed Linux it could be on there already. O'Reilly has a good book on samba but look for it a 1/2 price books or some used book store ...

Why would I not forward stout to ">> /var/adm/messages 2>$1"

This way I still get tracking info and it is automatically flushed via cron.