usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) (10/04/89)
I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has done a port of a system running under Foxbase under MSDOS and ported it to Foxbase under SCo XENIX 386. Any quirks that I should be aware of? Advance thanx, j |%|John Lawitzke, Dale Computer Corp., R&D |%|UUCP: uunet!frith!dale1!jhl Work |%| uunet!frith!dale1!ipecac!jhl Home Inquiring minds just wondering. |%|Internet: jhl@frith.egr.msu.edu
timk@xenitec.on.ca (Tim Kuehn) (10/05/89)
In article <4844@cps3xx.UUCP> jhl@frith.egr.msu.edu () writes: >I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has done a port of a system >running under Foxbase under MSDOS and ported it to Foxbase under SCo >XENIX 386. Any quirks that I should be aware of? > >Advance thanx, > >j |%|John Lawitzke, Dale Computer Corp., R&D > |%|UUCP: uunet!frith!dale1!jhl Work > |%| uunet!frith!dale1!ipecac!jhl Home >Inquiring minds just wondering. |%|Internet: jhl@frith.egr.msu.edu I helped beta-test the SCO version of F-base/+ 2.1 and the port went without a hitch. I took a medium-sized program(around 200K source code, 10+ databases, multitudes of index files, etc.) from an existing DOS application and copied it over. I(and the company I was doing the beta-test with) found a few quirks, which I've been told have since been fixed by SCO. The vast majority of my work is with DOS stuff, so I haven't done any recent work with the SCO version, and can't comment any further (although I have heard about a problem with records not being unlocked in m-user applications, before the most recent version (2.1.1) came out.) the only thing I recall that's not there is the sys() function that gives you the amount of memory space left. Seems that they decided it was no applicable to a m-user env. and took it out. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Timothy D. Kuehn timk@xenitec | |TDK Consulting Services !watmath!xenitec!timk | |871 Victoria St. North, Suite 217A | |Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2B 3S4 (519)-741-3623 | |DOS/Xenix - SW/HW. uC, uP, DBMS. Satisfaction Guaranteed| +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
bob@consult.UUCP (Bob Willey) (10/09/89)
In article <4844@cps3xx.UUCP> jhl@frith.egr.msu.edu () writes: >I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has done a port of a system >running under Foxbase under MSDOS and ported it to Foxbase under SCo >XENIX 386. Any quirks that I should be aware of? There is a very interesting article in Data Based Advisor in October 1989, entitled "Moving FoxBase + from DOS to XENIX". Sound Familiar? If you don't already get the magazine, they can be reached at Data Based Solutions, Inc. 4010 Morena Blvd, Suite 200 San Diego, CA 92117 (619) 483-6400 .. Would be very worth your time, just for this article, plus the magazine has some really good articles almost every month. Hope this helps. -- .. Computer Consulting Service .. Bob Willey .. .. P.O. Drawer 1690 .. uunet!consult!bob .. .. Easton, Maryland 21601 .. (301) 820-4670 .. ...............................................................