>Hi All,
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>I wonder with all the contreversy on whether VFP and/or the VFP runtimes are allowed to be run on Linux, if it is worth fighting MS on?
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>The reason I ask is because there are several tools that allow you to run Fox/FoxPro code on Linux without dealing with MS.
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>Two that come to mind right away are Recital and Flagship. Both of these products provide compiler level compatability with FoxPro (dos) code. The latter also has a new 'visual' version.
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>While these tools are NOT FoxPro, they do allow you to leverage 100% of your knowledge and write code you are familiar with and deploy to Linux, even with a Client/Server architechture if you want.
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>While I haven't used these, I do plan to give one a try, and see how much of an existing app I can resue on a port. We may not be able to run VFP on Linux, but we can certainly run all the code we wrote.
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>Here are the links to the products mentioned above.
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>http://www.recital.com/products_linux.htm
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>http://www.fship.com
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>They both have free downloads for personal and/or demo versions, if I remember correctly.
>
>BOb

I don't see any indication on the Flagship site that their product supports VFP - only FP DOS, albeit in "GUI" or text modes.

CodeBase from Sequiter has probably been around the longest: http://www.sequiter.com/products/codetranslator/