Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 03:23:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> To: Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@artlogix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: need some advice on a freebsd solution Message-ID: <20020822102316.35518.qmail@web20104.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <86fzx7fo7m.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com>
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--- Ken McGlothlen <mcglk@artlogix.com> wrote: > > I often hate answers that start this way, but sometimes, there's just no > way to > avoid it: What does the DOS application actually do? > > The reason I ask is because it isn't clear to me what the situation is. The application is a simple accounting tool for payrolls. > Your client has this DOS program he needs to run, yes? Does he need to > have > multiple users running it at once on the same machine? Does the DOS > program > access the network directly? Who's using the program? Your client's > clients, > or just your client? Does the connection have to be secure for just > your > client, or for the client's clients? What sort of interface do your > client's > clients use, if any? My client will host the DOS appliction on his server that his clients will need access to. My client wants to set up a series of directories that all contain a separate copy of the DOS application. When his clients access the server remotely, they should only have access to their directories. The application should begin as soon as the login. The secure connection needs to be between my client's server and his client's workstations. > > And that's not the last of the questions. I just feel like there's so > little > information in your initial post. > I appologize if I was too vauge. Thanks for your response. Let me know if i can better clarify this scenario. > * > > My gut feeling is that if the DOS program is simple enough, it should > probably > be reimplemented as a native FreeBSD app. Could it be rewritten easily > in, > say, Perl or Python? > The problem is that this is waaay beyond my scope. My client doesn't want something too complicated, time consuming, or expensive. -Sameer __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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