At 10:59 AM 25/03/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>Sorry Helen, didn't realise their was an IBO group on Yahoo.
>Will sign on there next time.
>Anyhow, glad it is a long weekend on your end so thanks for the
>detailed response - itching to get going with IBO.

Except I'm sick. Erk.

>BTW, Delphi 2 had DB access (DBase, Paradox), as did BCB, if that's
>what you were refering to, but obviously not Interbase at that
>stage.

In fact, Delphi 1 had DB Access, including InterBase, and even shipped with
IB as a 16-bit DLL which could be used locally to simulate "real
client/server".

>Not sure when Borland split Delphi and BCB into two or more
>distinct packages but I think from D3 and BCB 2.

Delphi and BCB were never conjoined. They became so -- after a fashion --
with Kylix 3, insofar as you can fire up either an ObjectPascal or a CPPB
IDE from the goodies installed from the same CD, but not for concurrent use
in the same workspace. I heard that "CPPB9" was meant to come out as part
of the much-trumpeted Delphi 2005 but I don't know whether that came to
fruition.

AFAIR, CPPB first came to life commercially as CPPB 2, a few months after
Delphi 3 came out.

./hb