>>>>>>A customer informed me that they are planning to move from Microsoft to Open Office. I have no idea what Open Office is. Will my VFP 9 application still work under Open Office? I didn't think that Open Office is an OS so why should it not work?!
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>>>>>Do they really mean OpenOffice or do they mean open source? If the latter, that probably means Linux and you've got some issues.
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>>>>>Tamar
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>>>>The manager (not IT manager though) sent me an email using the term "Open Office". I will clarify with him on Monday.
>>>>Thank you.
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>>>An additional reference may be
http://forum.foxclub.ru/read.php?29,203773,203773#msg-203773 (in Russian)
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>>Thank you very much for the link.
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>You're welcome. I haven't looked into the file posted, but if you would need to build something I guess, it may be a good start.
At this point I am not looking to build anything. All I want is to see if my VFP app will work with whatever technology the customer is choosing. If they choose technology that makes my app not working, I will just tell them "Sorry, I can't help you. It was nice knowing you".
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"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
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