>I am having problems with IBO installation.
>I am getting a message
> 'A device attached to your system is not functioning'

I don't know what this could be from.

>The next message i get is that

>'There appears to be a conflict with another
>installation of IBO. Please properly uninstall
>prior installations and try this installation again'.

Please look in the Logs\ sub-folder and see if you can find the report of
how the installation failed.

>2) In my application i am using quatum grids .
>So i connect IBOTable to BDE datasource ,
>(because Quatum Grid fails to connect to IBdatasource).
>During connection its data is displayed . But on
>compiling i am getting a compilition error IB Components was
>compiled with older version and some string is being displayed.

This sounds like your packages and source are inconsistent.

>3) Can TIB Cusor is used like the batch move component.

Depending on what you are doing, TIB_DataPump would be more ideal.

>4) My app will have to work with more 100,000 records
>what is the best way to perform sql operations on it.
>Will external files be a better option.

If you are able to use external files, they are the fastest way to reference
data and you have the benefit of not passing the data through the client
layers. This way you can reference that data directly in a stored
procedure.

One thing to be very careful of when working with external files is they are
not held under transactional control. You always are dealing with a
dirty-read/dirty-write situation.

>Regards
>Niegil Thomas

HTH,
Jason Wharton