On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Paul Reeves wrote:

> Nataraj S Narayanan wrote:
> >
> > Hi All
> >
> > I am in a fix. I have an uneviable job of maintaining a 100
> > installations of a software written using Delphi 1.0 on IB 4.xx with a
> > premitive BDE. Is there any way to 'tweak' or hack so that the data may be
> > transferred to FB or IB6 and still use the same program without
> > recompiling? (I don'nt have the source :-((( )
>

> Are we talking full client/server install here, or just local InterBase?
> I suspect the latter. Migrating the database from IB4 to Firebird or IB6
> is likely to be the easy part. You can experiment by backing up the
> database and then restoring it to the new server of choice. Whether your
> 16-bit client application will be able to connect to it or not is
> another matter.

Its a local Interbase.

I have tried that. But got a message like 'unsupported disk structure'.

>
> > Has the internal structure of IB changed from IB5 onwards?
>
> Yes and no, but the core api is unchanged and it is that api which is
> used fopr all access to the database.

If BDE is calling the IB Api, should'nt it work for any version? Can we
tweak so as to make BDE call the C/S database?


regards


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