>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.

A.) For the FTP/TELNET client you are looking for, I do not know if you have
tried the WWIPstuff dll libraries. You can create your own Visual tool from
scratch.

B.) For the data format from the Linux box, you may want to have it in fixed
length format with a ending carriage return at the end, that way you can
import it into a Fox table and then whatever you want with it. If you C or VB
you may want to create a little prog that will do that for you.

C) for the first one I only have one question where does Linux keep that
kind of info, does it have a filename attached with every user, everytime
they log in? or it is something else?


mark oliva