Gaurav Sood wrote:

> Hi Adam
>
> At this stage I am getting previously written software up to a working
> module. The software was written about 3 or 4 years ago and
> unfortunately there is not enough funding in the project for me to
> redo/port the TQuery over to other free components such as MDO or IBX.
> I believe it would involve quite a bit of rework of the software.
>

You might want to explore IBO - you may be able to easily convert from BDE
to (non-native) IBO. However, IBO is not gratis (just inexpensive).
Do check the "BDE-to-IBO Migration Guide" on
http://www.ibobjects.com/TechInfo.html#ti_Migrating

--
Aage J.

ps
I usually cannot read yout posts, they look like:
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in Mozilla Thundebird

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> On 2/18/06, Adam <s3057043@...> wrote:
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>>Gaurav,
>>The immediate issue here is the reserved word Type. The more important
>>problem though is that it is a really bad idea to use the BDE to
>>connect to Firebird. It is unstable, slow, a pain to install and
>>unreliable. There are lots of different connection libraries that
>>provide equivalent classes to TQuery, and I can not think of a worse
>>component to use.