From: | "Andrus" <eetasoft(at)online(dot)ee> |
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To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: FoxPro in WINE to Postgresql on LINUX? |
Date: | 2005-10-25 08:44:54 |
Message-ID: | djkrns$1f1s$3@news.hub.org |
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Is it possible to create zero config installation by using connecton string
and simply including odbc dll files (odbc32.dll, odbcint.dll, odbccp32.dll )
with application ?
This is a lot simpler for end user, no manual config required.
"William Yu" <wyu(at)talisys(dot)com> wrote in message
news:djjdl7$rl8$1(at)news(dot)hub(dot)org(dot)(dot)(dot)
> MargaretGillon(at)chromalloy(dot)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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