having watched this conversation for a while, isn't a problem that even if someone wrote a decent linux app for this problem, you don't have a box to run it on? The php/sql/apache type of solutions surely require a reasonable server, with the two windows machines a clients.
Yes, which is why such a solution is not as practical as a mySQL/python/wxWindows solution which would run on win/lin/mac. The other toy library machine (not the 486) is a laptop which is also used for taking minutes at meetings etc. I'd rather migrate the application first, and the OS second rather than both in one glorious splat. Besides, I'd like to learn the wxWindows toolkit.
Unless you want to run php/sql/apache on windows??? *blech*
blechery indeed.
Cheers, Carl.
