At 08:25 PM 4/30/00 +0200, Dominique Louis wrote:

>
>Does the "of Course" mean that I should be able to read a 5.6 database with
>IB 6.0 without doing a back up first or that this feature will be
>implemented in a future version? Because if you mean the former, when I
>try and open a 5.6 db with IB Console I get the following message...
>Unsupported on-disk structure for file C:\ARCHIVOS DE
>PROGRAMA\BORLAND\DELPHI4\PROJECTS\REMS\DATA\REMS.GDB; found 9, support 10
>If the console knows that the db is version 9 and supports 10 then it
>should prompt me if it should upgrade the db to 10 thus allowing me to open
>the database without too much fuss.
>Similar to the way Delphi asks to upgade form structure to the latest
>version when you open older version forms for the first time.
>If IBConsole has this capability to automagically upgrade my 5.6 db to 6.0,
>please let me know how I can achieve it.
>
>

Hmmm. Perhaps I was a little hasty. I was speaking for the past
and for the future. The present is a little more difficult.

As you know, Interbase (the product) is still owned by Inprise
(aka Borland). Interbase Software Corporation (aka Interbase-IV)
is negotiating with Inprise to take the product open source.

In the interim, Inprise is giving away V6 betas and selling V5.6.
Also, it is anticipated that even after emancipation, Inprise will
continue to sell V5.6.

In the past (Interbase-I and Interbase-II) separated the the
engine (formerly known as the access method) into an image
separate from the Y-valve so a subsequent release could access
both. This practice appears not to have been followed by
the most recent Borland engineering management, now happily
gone, for reasons that are hard to fathom.

I think, given appropriate tweaking, the acting general manager
of Inprise's Interbase division and president of Interbase-IV
can be convinced to fix this. I shall commence to lobby
unmercifully.

Jim Starkey