Rolando's questions

I support a company that has a very old, mission critical, FoxPro for DOS 2.6 (FPD) application.

For variuos reasons the company didn't adapt/migrate their app, which, ironically, has been running even better under Windows XP (and 32-bit Win7) because the OS allowed new features like more reliable networking, distributed printing, email integration. Unfortunately for this company, most new machines now come with a 64-bit version of Windows 7, which is incompatible with their FPD app.

I know this time the writing is on the wall: the only long-term solution is to migrate their app. But I wonder if anyone can suggest a temporary alternative path, which doesn't involve either:

a) downgrade 64-bit Windows to 32-bit, or

b) run the app on a virtualized 32-bit XP

Thanks!

PS: Happy New Year!!!

I have a legacy application that for printing purposes, sends its output to a file in different directories. What's written into directory X is printed in printer X; what's written into directory Y is printed in printer Y; and what's written into directory Z is converted into a PDF, and the PDF handler program is launched.

This setup works fine in Windows.

I'd like to replicate it in Ubuntu Linux. So I'd like a daemon that would monitor a directory, so that it would send whatever is written into that directory to a specific printer queue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.