At 9/22/2000 09:38 PM (Friday), you wrote:

>It is not possible to use Paradox as a front-end to any database but
>Paradox and (original) DBase IV. pdox and pdxwin are integrated IDE's.

Whoa, hold on there! This is flat out wrong and a big disservice to Paradox
and the BDE. We have several Paradox applications running against
Interbase, DB2, and MS Sql Server databases and they work fine. In fact we
could not have developed them in anywhere nearly the short time we did if
we had used Delphi or other development tools. The only thing we do is keep
temporary and result tables to be native Paradox format and reside on the
client machine's local drives. These apps access many GBs of data from the
database servers in dozens of tables.

ALl this is possible due to the flexibility of the BDE. While we cannot
take advantage of some server-specific functionality you actually can get
pretty far using this approach.