Re: help for a future user
On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote:
> Usually I work with FoxPro under DOS but I want my DBFs to be secure.
> Does a FoxPro release for Linux exist?
You can, of course, "host" the dbf files on a linux system, making them
available to windoze users by sharing the relevent directories with Samba.
(Samba is available as a Debian package).
Unfortunately, this may not give you file & record locking at a
satisfactory level if you have both linux and windoze/FoxPro clients
accessing the files at the same time.
I believe that Samba implements these locks sucessfully for the Samba
clients (FoxPro), but you may need un*x/linux programs to implement them
too, in which case you might need to look at SCO Unix - there used to be
a FoxPro for SCO a few years ago.
(FoxPro for SCO might run under Linux to if you are running the iBCS
compatability deb's - does anyone know?)
Perhaps you can get a "personal" version of SCO (someone told me that it
can be obtained without having to pay for it), obtain SCO FoxPro and try
migrating SCO FoxPro to Linux.
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