Barbara,
>Hi everyone,
>I've been asked to convert (NOT rewrite) an SCO Fox application presently running on an 1995 era UNIX box. I've been assured they have all the source code - that they recompiled it under SCO Fox when making Y2K changes.
>
>Does anyone have any advice about Gotchas? I've never worked with SCO Fox, just early DOS and Windows Fox in conversion projects.
>
>TIA
>Barbara
Fred, David et al have given you the gist of what you're going to run in to. My biggest issue was having to revert my thinking back to the place where there were fewer commands. One that comes to mind is ALLTRIM(). Doesn't exist in FPU. So, you have to use LTRIM(RTRIM()) which will work.
Still, you should be able to deal with those issues fairly easily.
Question: When you say 'convert' do you mean to VFP? If so you (and your client) will find that you will end up with screens that look
very clunky running under Windows. They'll work, but I'd be willing to bet that you'll do at least a rewrite of the forms at some point. <g>
Best,
DD
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