I think the EULA allows us to use VFP 6 (see WineHQ). THe Wine Project was moving along pretty good before our rich humanitarians lawyers re-wrote the EULA and cut a deal with the NEOCONs to prevent M$ from be broke up into seperate OS and applications companies.

We can only imagine at how well our fortunes could have been if M$ had not threatened EULA enforcement and had been broken up.

Now, M$ is in the War Business. They own part of a naval ship yard. A year ago, M$ tried to "sneak" Windows desktops into an AEGIS class destroyer (instead of the Sun SYstems the Navy has always used) that was being built in "their" shipyard. When the Navy brass heard about it they threw a fit and made Microsoft haul it's stuff out.

The Navy likes American Made Software!

dBaseIV (for UNIX) has about the same file capacities as VFP. It is probably the most powerful comprehensive development tool ever built for UNIX. It has events and methods that can be tied to @GETS - but it is not GUI.

THere is also a guy named flagship the translates xBase to C and then compiles it to a UNIX executable - but I think it is also not a GUI.

The europeans are building good stuff. They have something called dBase Gold - which is an evolved dBase VII - check it out - the properties and methods are similar to Foxpro.

>Applications built with Synergy/DE (DBL, OpenVMS Dibol) located on the LINUX OS are in need of a face lift! Intensive use of ISAM files provide the business solutions. These business solutions are aquired by text screen menus and are considered non-marketable. My ambition/goal here is to provide the efficentcy via GUI. Open ended time-line.
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>I am required to -
>Become familier with the LINUX OS. OK - I can move around.
>Compile/Link/ and Run DBL apps. OK - simular to COBOL and C.
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>(Now... let's see if I can formulate a question... thinking out loud)
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>Can VFP be run on LINUX?
>Is a Third party software purchase required? Is it FoxTalk?
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>Being hard-core Fox, I believe the solution is FoxPro, am I wrong?
>Should the newer version of Synergex products be pursued? (Learn ADO/OLE DB)
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>For order entry:
>Windows and Linux: Maybe a nice Grid or Entry-Screen/Grid combo written in VFP.
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>For reports:
>If VFP could launch (start) the existing LINUX applications (dbr /home/edgar/test/sorprpt01), then the GUI menu (also running on LINUX) would only need to be updated for 'change of report selection' which could be handled in a graphical table.
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>For Graphs or Grids:
>Using VFP, I would need to be able to read the created ISAM's whose definitions reside in the respected ddd text-like files. Seems feasible and expandable.
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>Of course, if VFP could access the data directly thru SQL commands, rebuilding everything in VFP would be great, but I don't think the legacy-programmers would agree.
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>I open this thread to all comments/suggestions/critizations (be kind).
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>TIA