Helen Borrie wrote:

> ...
> The originally released IB 6 would read an IB 5.x (ODS 9) database; then
> Borland disabled that capability when they rebuilt their (then Open Source)
> binaries in January 2001 after the security flare. I can't remember the
> reason for disabling it.
> ...

There were reports/rumors that db's had been corrupted.


Regards,
Aage J.