FW: SCO Foxpro 2.6 for Unix

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, m.w.chang wrote:
> No..He's trying to run SCO FoxPro on linux by tuning the terminal
> parameters properly. He's been doing it for nearly a year and had some
> results. You could donwload the foxpro 2.5 ruintime (initially for for

I could, but i think the more important question is why would i want to?
Foxpro is a joke of a database.

> SCO) from his site and run foxpro programs in linux via the runtime. I
> think he wanted to solve the problem with mouse. Foxpro/DOS 2.5 has
> mouse support.
>
> Never used SCO myself. Can one use a mouse with the console only in SCO?
> Or is it possible to emulate a DOS-like mouse in linux console via
> /dev/mouse? :)

That would be gpm (general purpose mouse) in linux.  I've no clue if such
a thing exists in SCO.

I'll say it again, whoever this Dennis Allen guy is, it doesn't sound like
he has the first clule of what he's doing.

>
> Net Llama! wrote:
> > Err...last I checked, this was neither a SCO or a UNIX mailing list.
> > Hell, its not even a BSD list.
> >
> > FWIW, whoever this Dennis Allen guy is, it doesn't sound like he has the
> > first clue of what he's doing.  What do SCO mouse drivers have to do with
> > Linux, if SCO Foxpro (and i can't even fatham why anyone would want to use
> > that flaming POS) supposedly runs on a linux kernel?  Also, xterm doesn't
> > have a mouse protocl, X has a mouse protocol.
>

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