>Hoped that you'd try to blaze that trail... I chickened out and gave it W7. Any news on the wining and dining of VPAdvanced and/or Webbrowser/ShDocview/MsHtml ? FileSystemObject exists under Wine influence - lately more FSO instead of LLF in my taplings... So COM per se is not the problem.

Retirement, in my case, means that you still don't have the time but for different reasons :). So VFPA not yet. In VFP9.2 under wine, browser does not (but shellexecute runs the url in the default browser in linux, so you get what you expect, just not the way you thought). A few other COM thingies just work - I think treeview and maybe a couple more. Even better, practically all Win API calls, as described at Anatoliy's, just work. I do FTP with them, get timezone info, it all works. And yes, FSO, which I often use.