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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- David McDonald telephone: +61-2-9554-0346 (direct) Systems Support Analyst +61-2-9554-0000 (switch) Security Mailing Services 04-1237-2284 (mobile) 6 The Crescent facsimile: +61-2-9554-0554 P.O. Box 86 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] KINGSGROVE NSW 2208 AUSTRALIA ----------------------------------------------------------------------
