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Fox code on Linux sans MS
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29/04/2003 02:08:39
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Visual FoxPro
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Sorry Al, you are correct. I mistakenly added that link because it was a database product that also had a version that runs on Linux.

Simon


>I didn't see any reference to FoxPro on the DataAccess site; I searched on "foxpro" in their KB and got 0 hits.
>
>>Hi
>>
>>There is also www.plugsys.com and www.dataaccess.com
>>
>>Simon
>>
>>>>Hi All,
>>>>
>>>>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?
>>>>
>>>>The reason I ask is because there are several tools that allow you to run Fox/FoxPro code on Linux without dealing with MS.
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>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.
>>>>
>>>>Here are the links to the products mentioned above.
>>>>
>>>>http://www.recital.com/products_linux.htm
>>>>
>>>>http://www.fship.com
>>>>
>>>>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/
Simon White
dCipher Computing
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