MargaretGillon@chromalloy.com wrote: > VFP will run in WINE up to VFP version 8. But the people I talk to that > are doing this are using VFP's native tables. Does anyone know if it's > possible to run VFP8 in WINE and connect to Postgresql on a Linux > server? I think part of the question here is how would WINE emulate the > ODBC to get to the Postgresql server.
I can confirm FoxPro running under Wine/Linux can access Postgres via ODBC and performs nearly comparable to FoxPro under Windows. I got 90%+ performance on some of my data processing programs. Where you do get really slow is accessing DBFs over the network because NFS is so inefficient.
It doesn't work with UnixODBC so you need to install the Postgres Windows ODBC driver under WINE. Double-click on the ODBC installer, then type: wine odbcad32.exe to launch the config file.
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