This would be *** fantastic ***. How hard is it to do?

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Karwin [mailto:bill@...]
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 11:06 AM
To: IB-Architect@egroups.com
Subject: Re: [IB-Architect] Backward compatability with previous
versions of gdb files


One idea we had discussed it to provide with the V6 distribution a version
of gbak.exe with the Classic client library _statically_ linked in. The
Classic access method includes all the code needed for local I/O to a V5.x
database.

So once you install IB6, and can't access the database, the answer is:
"run interbase/bin/gbak_v5.exe -b old_database.gdb database.gbk, then
interbase/bin/gbak.exe -c database.gbk new_database.gdb"

No reinstallation of V5.x is necessary with this plan.

Bill Karwin




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