There's always SAMBA which lets the Windows PC open the Unix files directly. We use it open VFP tables on a SCO Unix system.

Rgds
Petras

>>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).
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>>I have been unsuccessful to date in finding such tools, and would appreciate any and all help and suggestions for other approaches.
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>Jack,
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> you didn't mention the format of the data on the backend. Or the speed of the connection for billing purposes. If it is in mysql or postgresql, there are odbc drivers, and with a good enough connection (ISDN or better), you will probably find this tolerable; especially since it can be done in a batch while you're off getting coffee.
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> With a slow connection and unknown format, you can have the linux side run a chron event to drag the needed data out with PERL or PHP, to a comma-delimited file for example, and then FTP the file from within VFP (see Rick's IPStuff already mentioned, in this regard).
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> As always, it all depends. <s>
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>Hank