> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ann Harrison [mailto:harrison@...]
> Sent: Sábado 20 de Mayo de 2000 15:09
>
> OK, the major change is that 6.0 will be able to read (and
> write) 5.x databases. 95% probability.
>
> Ann

Tonight, mournfully reading IBUG.PDF that came with IB4.0C on Windows 3.1,
I stopped on this paragraph at the end of page 168:
«
You need not upgrade databases to use a new version of InterBase. The new
versions can still access databases created with a previous version, but
cannot take advantage of any new InterBase features.
»

Oh, glorious times those of 1994 when IB was able to talk to databases
created with older versions! It seems we have in the same direction again.
(The only issue I see is that I will need to check again my routines to
detect the presence of rdb$precision on system tables... instead of the
server version, possibly I will have to peek at the ODS version.)
I assume that a client dialect 3 will continue being forbidden to access a
dialect 1 db or not?

C.