RE: [PLUG] Kylix question

["Charles Stack" <charles@codycomp.com>]

As a fellow Delphi (and somewhat Kylix) developer, I can think of only one
possible solution...and Linux people ain't gonna like it (short of an ODBC
driver for Kylix). To access Windows-specific databases, you can use a
product called ASTA.  You can run an ASTA server for Access on a Windows
box.  You then use the ASTA for Linux client suite to access that ASTA
server.  It's not perfect, but it does solve a lot of problems

ASTA allows you to isolate your clients from the underlying database (well,
for the most part) as well as to develop truly custom data access solutions.
Of course, it's also a commercial product from ASTA Technology Group
(http://www.astatech.com).

Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
[mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of noah silva
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 12:03 AM
To: plug list
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Kylix question


Hi,

I am not sure if there is any "easy" way to do this.  In windows, Delphi
will let you use any activeX control, and also you can use ODBC data
sources either using borland's BDE database engine system or "DBExpress"
drivers that support ODBC.  Another way to read/write access tables
would be to build you own library that did it.

Since Unix doesn't have MS Access to use with ODBC, BDE isn't available,
and activeX contols are windows specific, this poses somewhat of a
problem.

 -- noah silva



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