Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!watmath!xenitec!timk
From: timk@xenitec.on.ca (Tim Kuehn)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Foxbase DOS->XENIX
Summary: go for it!
Message-ID: <1989Oct5.140538.16900@xenitec.on.ca>
Date: 5 Oct 89 14:05:38 GMT
Reply-To: timk@xenitec.UUCP (Tim Kuehn)
Organization: TDK Consulting
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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
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>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.

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