Many of us wish some sort of GUI/OOP xBase solution was available for unix. There are some tentative offers if you google around enough.

But to your question - You can connect a VFP windows desktop to a UNIX/SQL backend. The ODBC will help you there. Downside - you loose the xBase and xBase record iteration. There have been lots of threads hoping for a VFP Unix tool - we're still waiting.

I've saw one UNIX shop that had 400 users hooked to a FoxBase app. The server was beat up old PI - but it worked great 24/7.

>Hi everybody,
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>I'd like to know if anybody has done a conversion from a fox2.5 for unix system into a visual fox system. I would like to know if someone has experienced this kind of transition already.
>If so your input would be greatly appreciated as much as any pointer to any
>resource to help me formulate an argument to move from a fox 2.5 unix system into a win2k system. The unix system works well but I'm not sure what could be missed by not upgrading to newer technology. The counterargument is that it is expensive and the benefits aren't too obvious.
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>Thanks.