Re: [PLUG] Kylix question

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

I assumed the BDE was included with Kylix

On Monday 09 September 2002 09:16 am, Noah silva wrote:
> Or,
>
> You look up the actual format of the access DB (like on wotsen's
> format or some place), and build your own driver library for it. 
> Someone did this for Paradox, so you could write apps that use
> "Paradox" (BDE) tables, but without having to install the BDE on
> client machines along with your app.
>
>  -- noah silva
>
> On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Charles Stack wrote:
> > 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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