Re: FoxPro in WINE to Postgresql on LINUX?

Can you use Postgres savepoints from VFP ?

sqlexec('ROLLBACK TO mysavepoint') and even sqlexec('ROLLBACK') cause C5
error.

Andrus.

"William Yu" <wyu(at)talisys(dot)com> wrote in message
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> Here's what I do. Once I get a good config, I just tarball my .wine dir
> and untarball it for any Linux/WINE box I need to get running.
>
> For users already running WINE w/ their own app configs already, then
> copying the files manually into the appropriate dirs and then appending
> the necessary text into the various config files will also work. WINE
> doesn't store registry settings in Windows' binary registry format.
> Instead, it's all flat text so installs are scriptable.
>
>
>
> Andrus wrote:
>> 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
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>>
>>>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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