[ubuntu-in] Foxpro 2.5 or similar software for linux

[Gora Mohanty]

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 13:15 +0530, Rohit V Bhute wrote:
> Rajib Biswas wrote:
> > Just found a Wikipedia entry here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FoxPro_2
> > which says that Foxpro had been ported to Unix and subsequently to 
> > Linux. It may serve my purpose. Can anbody shed more light on it? Where 
> > can I download Foxpro for Unix and/or Linux?

FoxPro is commercial, closed-source software, and I seriously doubt that
there is a free download available. I agree that it is going to be
painful, but I would recommend starting to migrate away from FoxPro.

[...]
> If you want   to run 'Foxpro' on Linux, I think learning SQLite and 
> ncurses will be a good option. Or you can use any of the GUI toolkits 
> for making the Foxpro screens. The resulting project will be superior to 
> Foxpro.

Ack, have only very briefly seen FoxPro, but from what I remember, it
was aimed at ease-of-use, along the lines of Microsoft Access. If so,
the better recommendation is something like oobase, the Open Office
database component, or rekall.

Regards,
Gora