Hi John,
There was a post on ProFox by Paul McNett as follows:
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I've stated previously that ActiveX on VFP/Wine/Linux doesn't work. Well,
someone has proven me wrong!
This person is successfully using the mscomm32.ocx to read from a com port.
This is doubly-surprising to me because I know what a headache I've had in
the past getting the mscomm32 to work reliably, and this guy just "dropped
the ocx into the program directory" and everything "just worked".
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Paul McNett
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I havn't worked with VFP or wine, other than to test it as to proof of concept. At the time I tested, there were enough nusances that I decided not to do anything significant with VFP under wine. The ideal solution is to obtain the actual source to VFP and compile under linux, but that not going to happen so far as I can tell. Otherwise, I'm keeping my eyes on VFP under wine and may do something with it at some future date. So far as using VFP/wine form with an activeX grid to access MSSQL on your SBS, you can give it a shot. I would be interested to hear how it goes.
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Here what I've come up with on mounting NTFS as RW under Linux:
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.htmlhttp://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/Form FAQ:
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3.2 Can the Driver write to an NTFS volume, too?
Not really.
There are two drivers, currently. The original driver, in 2.4 has some write code in it, but it is extremely dangerous to use it. The possibility of destroying your filesystem is very high.
The new driver, introduced in 2.5.11, has some write code, but it's very limited. The driver can overwrite existing files, but it cannot change the length, add new or delete existing files.
Adding write support will take a long time. NTFS is built like a database. Any changes you make, necessitate making changes in many places, for consistancy. Make a mistake and the filesystem will be damaged, make too many mistakes and the filesystem will be destroyed. Also, the current developers are only working on NTFS as a hobby, during their free time. If you'd like to help, please email me:
webmaster@flatcap.org.
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Regard,
LelandJ
