On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 10:29, Duane Clark wrote: > Mark Burdick wrote: > > 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. Ahhh But he said Fox 2.6. FPD2.6 is a DOS app. It should run just fine in Linux with the Solaris Runtime. I have a copy on my website: http://www.havokmon.com/stuff/workstuff/prg/solarisrt/ I had written a FoxPro DOS/Unix app to dump out basic HTML on our Linux webserver. A Foxpro DOS "Web app". So I don't have much experience running UI stuff, but IIRC, it seemed to work alright. Rick > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users -- -- Rick Romero IT Manager Valeo, Inc. ph: 262.695.4841 Sussex, WI. fax: 262.695.4850 Rick@xxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
