You might consider moving the foxpro app to foxpro for unix which runs quite easliy on Redhat 8, and other distros with a little more effort.
Foxpro Dos code is the same as foxpro unix code except for pathnames and printer commands. Then you could ditch dos altogether. See dennisallen.com for more info, or contact me off list. -Jeff On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:29:18 -0200 Lista do Pei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Anselm, > > I Have this situation: > a server running novell 3.11 with 40 DOS diskless terminals running a > FoxPro application in DOS environment and I have to migrate to a Linux > solution, but the Clients do not have Hard disks. That's why I thought > in a LTSP solution. Don't you think it's possible? > > > Thanks, > > > Pei. > > Em Ter, 2004-01-27 às 01:36, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister escreveu: > > Pei Chiou wrote: > > > I'm newbee in LTSP and I whish to know if I could migrate a novell 4 > > > with 50 DOS clients to LTSP with 50 DOS clients and also gain > > > perfomance? Do the server has to be a Dual Processored or a simgle > > > processored PIV is enough to do the job? > > > > I'm not sure what you want to do. The point about LTSP is *not* having > > "DOS clients", but the terminals running a very cut-down Linux instead. > > If you plan replacing the novell server with a linux box: That's > > possible, but has nothing to do with LTSP in the first place. They can > > even coexist and collaborate. > > > > I'd like you to inform about what LTSP is and what it commonly is used > > for. Reading the mailing list archive could give you a rough idea, > > www.ltsp.org contains some material and of course you will most of the > > time find someon on the #ltsp irc channel (irc.freenode.org I think) > > who's willing to talk about his setup. > > > > If you explain more precisely what "job" has to be done, probably > > someone can tell you wether you need dual CPU. For running openoffice, > > java, mozilla, stuff you probably want a *fast* box. More RAM seems to > > be more important than a faster CPU though, YMMV. This has been > > discussed several times on this list, so I won't elaborate. > > > > HTH > > > > Anselm > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > -- > Pei Chiou > Analista de Ti > > ASOLIS - Applied Solutions on Linux Systems > www.asolis.com.br > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
