I am putting together a Web accounts billing application and would like to include user account maintenance functionality. The accounts are on a Linux box, but the billing will be done in VFP under Windows 98 on a networked machine. This requires that I be able to 1) issue a Linux command for user account updates and 2) copy the user table from the Linux box to VFP for formatting and display. I am taking the approach that 1) would require something in a non-visual Telnet object, and that 2) would use a non-visual FTP client object. There might also be some sort of a TCP/IP text ODBC driver that could be used for 2).

I have been unsuccessful to date in finding such tools, and would appreciate any and all help and suggestions for other approaches.