SCO Foxbase

[Karl Denninger]

In article <102.25800858 at weyr.FIDONET.ORG> Tim.Radbourne at p5.f60.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Tim Radbourne) writes:
>Is anyone using SCO Foxbase?  How does its performance compare with the DOS 
>LAN version?

It's fantastic.  Performance is excellent; we've had no problems or
complaints there.  Put your money in the Unix/Xenix machine that is going to
"host" it; a 387 math chip helps quite a bit in calculation intensive
applications.

>Would anyone have ideas as to how that data from a SCO Xenix Foxbase app 
>could be moved relatively easily and quickly between a DOS version of Fox 
>and a SCO version?  This would preferrably be a transparent way that a user 
>could take a daily backup diskette from a Xenix system and simply restore 
>it onto a DOS system and vice versa.  I am presently crunching (using 
>PKARC) DBF's in DOS before doing the backup.  Can this be done in Xenix 
>and uncrunched transparently in DOS?

You move over the .dbf files and reindex under the other version.  Job done.
No need for any other conversion steps.  We do this all the time without
trouble.


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