At 12:46 PM 9/11/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>Helen,
>
>Thanks for the lengthy reply - it confirmed my fears. The apps in
>question are web based (using CgiExpert, another legacy choice) and
>therefore do not use any complex aspects of TIBQuery - there are
>simply a lot of them!

Oh, then if you don't have to worry about TFields and datasources, I would
go straight to the native IBO components.

>Sigh.
>
>Great book too by the way - something that the IB/FB community
>really needed.

:-) They've just reprinted it.

Helen