Running Visual FoxPro on Linux By Paul McNett (FoxTalk, March 2003) While Microsoft publicly refuses to release Visual FoxPro for alternate platforms, there's still hope for a multi-platform VFP. Using an open-source product called Wine, Paul McNett shows how we can take matters into our own hands and put the fox on Linux ourselves. Remember last century, when one of FoxPro's greatest selling points was its ability to run and deploy to not one, not two, not three, but four separate platforms? This was a powerful selling point for me when I was choosing my development environment: Even though I only ever deployed to Windows, it was reassuring to know I wouldn't be painted into a corner should a client ask about a Mac, Unix, or DOS version of my software. Contrast that to today: As new versions of Visual FoxPro emerge with their great features and fixes, I keep finding myself thinking that our situation as VFP developers is pretty dire, being limited to developing and deployi...
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