On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Jörg Sonnenberger wrote: > Subject: Re: dos emulators > > On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 13:34:40 -0500 > "Asenchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I was wondering if any one new of a good DOS Emulator that will run > > Foxpro 2.6. Thanks. > > > > Running: > > 4.7-release > > > > Curt Micol > > You can try at least bochs (slow) or dosemu (not sure, how it works > under FreeBSD, never tried). Bochs is a PC emulator and really > slow (emulates 80x86...) and is in ports, dosemu not. > > - Joerg >
Several years ago, while on co-op, I had to port a bunch of aging foxpro data to a more modern rig. I had zero luck getting the DOS version of FoxPro to run reliably in dosemu or Wine (in Linux) at the time, so I viewed the format of the FoxPro data files (they were flat text files) and wrote some Perl to move it all into text and SQL statements to load it into a more modern database. In short, it may take you less time to reformat the data manually than it will to fsck around with FoxPro and get it to run reliably. So if you're porting data to a newer rig, think about it, if you just plain want to run FoxPro, don't ;) Good luck! # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
