Thanks John
I'm taking the do-it-yourself porting strategy for now . I worked in an ISV multi-developer shop for 5+ years. They had the PFC services porting work already done before I arrived. Since it was a part of their enterprise application suite, even though they kept the comment headers in the code, they didn't share their "Out of Framework" Port with the general public.
I really thought that so many years downstream from OpenSource PFC, some group would have made generic type services publicly available.
Today, I spent a some time moving of_dirlist( ) into a POPO (plain Old Powerbuilder Object) NVO. I'll likely do the same for each function as I need it.
Yakov