>>>3. My Foxpro applications will be installed on server and they shud be able >>to run it..
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>>This cannot be done, because VFP will not run on a Linux machine. Virtually >none of the programs you're used to use won't run on Linux.
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>I have to disagree. If the Linux box is used as a server and is allowing file access to DOS/Windows based files, then VFP apps can be installed on the Linux server and run from it.
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To clarify, this means that, given the correct network client on a Win32 system, with the files residing on a machine running Linux, the Win32 station can access the files on the Linux box and run the application, just like it could if any other type of server were used. It does not mean that the Linux box can run the VFP application, only that it can host the files.

Linux can't run a VFP application. Period. VFP will not run under the control of the Linux operating system, but the file system of the Linux box can be accessed given the right network client from a machine capable of running VFP.

>It's no different than putting a VFP .EXE on an NT server and launching it from the [NT] network drive. The VFP application will always run on the client, whether it was launched from a local drive or a network drive (NT or Linux).
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Except that NT could run the VFP application locally; being a Win32 system, the app can run under NT. IOW, not only could the files reside on the NT box and be accessed by other stations capable of running VFP, the NT box itself is capable of running VFP.

>Guy