Re: Unix- HELP! Are we being bluffed?

The best solution I can suggest for you is a product called Hotkey which is a superb terminal emulator, is written in South Africa, works with WFW, allows for through-printing and will do a lot more for you. Call us if you want to know more. Secondly, Informix 4GL(on which Fourgen is based) does not run well on a GUI at all!. All you can hope to do is run an emulation through to the Unix box from WFW. Unless they have re-worked Fourgen under New Era the product is a Unix based product and that is it. By the way, we market an Informix based Retail package. Any interest? gfrank (gfrank@iafrica.com) wrote: : We are a multi-branch retail company, Buildware Market, in South Africa. : We purchased Fourgen as the software to run our business, including aspects such : as point-of-sale, financials, stock control, etc. We are in the process of implementing : the software at our first branch. Fourgen is written in Informix, which runs on Unix. : Our local dealer assures us that several things we thought were possible : are not possible. I'm not convinced, and I would appreciate some external opinion. : We want to link our office LAN (Microsoft Win for Workgroups) to the Fourgen system : running on Unix. We are told that Win for Workgroups does not have suitable terminal : emulators to log in to the Unix box, and that we need to purchase terminal emulation : software called I-Net for EACH PC on the LAN, at a cost of US$235 per PC. : This sounds excessive. : Furthermore, we are told that it is NOT possible to re-map keyboard keys. Currently, the : Unix box uses F3 and F4 for Page up and Page down. We have purchased Wyse terminals : that have a normal PC-style 101 key keyboard. We're told that we can not re-map : the PgUp, PgDn, End, Home and other keys so that they would perform the functions one -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neil @ Storm. Any ideas expressed above are the feelings of my employer. I own the company. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------