i was looking around for some affordable 4gl, development tools for a
project i have to do. this client is a relatively small company -
about 40 users on Universe/Windows 2003 server.

their legacy application is completely home grown. written by dozens
of multivalue programmers over the last 15 years. it serves them well,
but, of course there is no standardization. there must be no less than
a dozen ways to exit/escape from different screens depending on who
the developer was.

they don't want to invest too much, if anything, into software
development tools, but i'm gonna have to write many data entry screens
by hand - extremely labor intensive - and costly to them. i'm spoiled,
i don't want to waste my time/effort and their money doing that kind
of tedious thing by hand anymore.

anyway, i found some really affordable dev tools - free - called
MVTools - doc says they run on D3, Reality, Unidata, Unvierse - i'm
sure someone in this forum has tried these out and is using them -
that's my hope.

i'm having big trouble getting them installed and running on Universe.
it quickly became apparent to me that they were writtin to work on
Universe running on top of Unix not UV/Windows. it's trying to shell
out and execute 'whoami' for instance.

i'm wondering if anyone on this forum has bit the bullet and tweaked
this toolset to work on UV/Windows and if they are willing to share or
sell me the tweaked version of MVTools so I can use it.

i'd love to tweak the toolset myself and could, but don't have the
time to do it.

thanks for any feedback.