ever heard of that?

official borland support statement:
.....
Professional:
InstallShield Express distributes applications, the BDE and a local version
of the
InterBase SQL Link driver (remote connections are not permitted). It does
not
distribute any of the other SQL Link drivers (DLL's). As such the BDE engine
can
only access ASCII, Paradox, dBASE and local InterBase files directly.
.......
....

again:
... the BDE engine can access ... local InterBase files directly. ...

is this true? why do we use IBX or IBO and IB server?

hannes hernler
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