wine users - Feb 2004 - Guidance needed for FoxPro app

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?

Thanks in advance,

-Mark



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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.

Have a look at
http://www.winehq.com/site/docs/wine-user/bugs

Ivan.

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 07:17, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 10:58, Rick Romero wrote:
> > 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 
> [snip]
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> If it's a DOS app, couldn't he use dosemu instead?
I suppose, but FoxPro 2.6 came out in both DOS and SCO Unix (sorry,
thought it was Solaris before) versions.  An application written in DOS
is _supposed_ to work just fine in SCO Unix.  My web apps worked just
fine in both, I just had to adjust the paths. My app is:
http://www.havokmon.com/stuff/workstuff/prg/funky/testitok.prg
I developed it in Windows/DOS, and ran it on Linux with the ibcs module.

I do remember getting the ANSI stuff working as well, but I didn't have
anything with a DOS UI that I could really play with.  Most of my
concern with it was keeping the ANSI stuff from outputting to the web
browser (I just ended up putting !-- tags around the start and finish of
the app).

Offhand, the only other thing I can think of that might need some
testing is printing.  A lot of Foxpro guys just copy to LPT1.

IMHO, if you can run it 'native' instead of running through any sort of
translation at runtime, might as well go that route.. ;)

Rick


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