>>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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>FoxPro will not run natively under Linux, but you can host VMware Workstation under most versions of Linux. Once VMware is started on the Linux computer, you can install a licensed version of window as a Virual Machine. This would allow you to run FoxPro in a VMware Windows Virtual machine hosted on the Linux computer computer. You could then click between the Linux Desktop and the Linux Desktop, etc.
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>http://www.vmware.com/overview/home.html
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>regards,
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>LelandJ
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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