Re: Foxpro for UNIX (was Re: VFP on Linux using Wine)

2012-12-06 Thread AndyHC
For FPDOS (or Clipper) apps there's always The Harbour Project - which seems to have got it's act together lately (haven't tried it - gave up years ago when it was too flaky). AndyD 8-)# On 06/12/2012 19:51, Kevin Cully wrote: At SWFox, I was hearing so much about people still maintaining F

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2012-12-06 Thread AndyHC
What's changed? I'm suddenly getting profox posts with Reply To: profoxt...@leafe.com instead of profox@... Gues I'll have to alter my mail filters AndyD 8-)# On 06/12/2012 16:54, Dave Crozier wrote: Ted, Geez... ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@l

Re: [NF] Hi-Tech, Low $ Camera

2012-12-06 Thread Pete Theisen
On 12/06/2012 09:51 PM, Pete Theisen wrote: I will bend the bracket angle down and left a little. Down will see less sky and increase the exposure in the shadows, left will correct the horizon, which is a little low at the right. That's wrong, the horizon is low at the left. Rotating the camer

Re: [NF] Hi-Tech, Low $ Camera

2012-12-06 Thread Pete Theisen
On 12/06/2012 09:35 PM, Kurt @ VR-FX wrote: Thanks for your equally funny reply. I laughed when U wrote T-Boned, but, to be honest - I don't know what it means. Can you explain here - or would it be an R-rated reply? Hi Kurt, T-bone is a front to side accident, one or the other vehicle typical

Re: [NF] Hi-Tech, Low $ Camera

2012-12-06 Thread Kurt @ VR-FX
Thanks for your equally funny reply. I laughed when U wrote T-Boned, but, to be honest - I don't know what it means. Can you explain here - or would it be an R-rated reply? And - I do understand why U wrote about it under [NF] - since its Tech related. But, curious. You uploaded to YouTube. Re

Re: [NF] Hi-Tech, Low $ Camera

2012-12-06 Thread Pete Theisen
On 12/06/2012 08:59 PM, Kurt @ VR-FX wrote: About $40. Mounted it on my helmet... This example video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OICHH1G0WA&feature=youtu.be I did watch the video - at least for a couple of minutes. But, I gotta say - and, of course, its just my opinion. However this vid

Re: [NF] Hi-Tech, Low $ Camera

2012-12-06 Thread Kurt @ VR-FX
Hey Pete! On 12/6/2012 8:03 PM, Pete Theisen wrote: Hi Everybody, About $40. Mounted it on my helmet... This example video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OICHH1G0WA&feature=youtu.be I did watch the video - at least for a couple of minutes. But, I gotta say - and, of course, its just my op

[NF] MySQL in this week's SANS vulnerability list

2012-12-06 Thread Richard Kaye
For all you MySQL fans out there, batten down the hatches... Title: Multiple Remote 0-Day Attacks Against MySQL Databases Description: A slew of remotely exploitable bugs in MySQL were released by security researcher KingCope on the Full-Disclosure mailing list over the weekend, with exploits in

Re: [NF] safe? Passwords that is

2012-12-06 Thread Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox)
Pertinent to this discussion: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/11/ff-mat-honan-password-hacker/all/ On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:48 PM, GaryT wrote: > On 06/12/12 03:53, Ted Roche wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 9:42 AM, GaryT wrote: >> >>> There isn't a recognizable word in it. Certainly n

Foxpro for UNIX (was Re: VFP on Linux using Wine)

2012-12-06 Thread Kevin Cully
At SWFox, I was hearing so much about people still maintaining FPDOS apps, but starting to have trouble running them in Windows ... that I was curious about porting FPDOS apps to FPUnix. It'd be awesome to be able to build a FreeBSD VM for distribution with all of the required dependencies and

Re: NF: [NF] Question(s) about Windows Server software

2012-12-06 Thread Mike Copeland
Original Message Subject: Re: NF: [NF] Question(s) about Windows Server software From: Ted Roche To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 12/6/2012 8:24 AM On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: Yes, the software vendor needs a Windows OS to run his support utilities o

Re: VFP on Linux using Wine

2012-12-06 Thread Paul McNett
On 12/6/12 5:47 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > You might point them towards http://www.winehq.org. They do have a listing > for VFP, and some contacts there. This is one of the things I usually do. However this last guy is having trouble accessing winehq, or at least parts of it, from his university in Be

Re: VFP on Linux using Wine

2012-12-06 Thread Chuck Flowers
These guys have a product based on Wine: their support may be worth the price of entry to those interested. Crossover for Mac Crossover for Linux http://www.codeweavers.com/ Chuck Flowers On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > And, actually, I am the original author of the AppD

RE: VFP on Linux using Wine

2012-12-06 Thread Dave Crozier
Ted, Geez... I really cocked on that one blame my age! For Kevin, I still have two customer sites running Foxpro (Foxplus) on SCO UniX & Xenix. Bear in mind that it is the old MSDOS equivalent though and not VFP. It works well despite not having any file/record locking but there were always

Re: VFP on Linux using Wine

2012-12-06 Thread Ted Roche
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Dave Crozier wrote: > Ted, > That's the original "group" that Paul set up in the way back when... > And Michael C. Day seems to be the current contact. > > I've been monitoring it from time to time and there hasn't been any > progress since Paul was active and h

Re: VFP on Linux using Wine

2012-12-06 Thread Kevin Cully
I was attempting to get it running under CrossoverOffice which is a superset of Wine. No such luck but I haven't attempted in a while. I did find a place where I could download Foxpro for SCO Unix and I've been tempted to see if I can get it to run under FreeBSD. Tempted, but haven't attempte

RE: VFP on Linux using Wine

2012-12-06 Thread Dave Crozier
Ted, That's the original "group" that Paul set up in the way back when... I've been monitoring it from time to time and there hasn't been any progress since Paul was active and had his wrists slapped by M$! lol Dave -Original Message- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On

Re: NF: [NF] Question(s) about Windows Server software

2012-12-06 Thread Ted Roche
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: > Yes, the software vendor needs a Windows OS to run his support utilities > on. > Well, that's one way of developing an app, I suppose. Next time you're on a support call with them, you ought to ask "What version of Clipper or Visual Objects

Re: VFP on Linux using Wine

2012-12-06 Thread Ted Roche
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Paul McNett wrote: > So every year or so I still get email about how someone was successful (to > a point) > running their VFP application on Linux or Mac using Wine, but they are > usually > contacting me because they have this or that problem they want help > re

Windows extended file properties

2012-12-06 Thread AndyHC
Hi all, has anyone got an example of get/setting windows extended file properties (e.g. for .mp3/ogg files) - either native vfp or using e.g. Scripting.FileSystemObject or Shell.Application etc. thanks - AndyD 8-)# ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@l