At 9/23/2000 09:55 AM (Saturday), Helen Borrie wrote:

> >At 9/22/2000 09:38 PM (Friday), Helen 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.
> >I replied:
> >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. [more
> snipped]
> >
> >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.
>
>How do you do it with IB 6. ?

Well, since it is all predicated on the use of the BDE, only Dialect 1
databases are usable by Paradox until the BDE is upgraded. (Don't hold your
breath!) But aside from precluding Dialect 3 I see no problems.

Aside: What exactly is Dialect 2, anyway? I've never looked.