Greetings, all. Here's some quick background that may be helpful... I've been using Linux for almost 10 years, and am pretty comfortable with it (multiple distro's). I work for a Novell partner and we are very interested in ramping up our Linux offering since Novell just bought SuSE.
We are looking to replace all of our Windows servers with Linux ones, and the first one to do is the Terminal Server. We aren't very concerned about the mainstream apps (word processing, e-mail, etc.) as there are excellent compatibles available for Linux. Our major concern is with a home-grown app we use to track service calls. The program was written in FoxPro 2.6a.
I have installed Wine20040213-0 on my SuSE 9 machine. When I try to launch the app, I am getting a WATCOM popup box that says Read Error.
Can anyone at least point me in the right direction of where to start?
In general, to make Foxpro apps work, you must set in your ~/.wine/config in the [Version] section:
[Version]
"Windows" = "win2k"
Also, in general, you should be using a native msvcrt.dll and friends, but Wine builtin DLLs for everything else. You of course also need the native runtime DLLs that come with the Foxpro app.
And finally, there is a Wine bug that effects tooltips (and maybe a couple other spots), causing the text to be cut off. It can be fixed with a simple patch to the Wine source, which of course means you will always need to use a slightly custom version of Wine. Info and a patch can be found here:
http://bugs.winehq.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1265
Use the second patch mentioned.
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