I was sort of hoping to get rid of the BDE....

-----Original Message-----
From: Nello Sestini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2001 15:08
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: Re: [DUG]: Clientdataset


> Basically I want to eliminate the Paradox files, and just use the flat
> files. I am considering deriving ClientDataSets to read the flat files and
> allow our app to stil use DBComponents etc. We don't need to write back to
> the flat files, just read from them.
>
> Are there any sites or articles that anyone knows of, that does something
> like the above. I have found a few, but they just use the LoadFromFile
> method, which I am guessing will only work once the flat files have been
> converted into the format the CDS can understand.

if you're using Paradox I assume that means you're using
the BDE.

I think there is a driver type TEXT in the BDE

you can define a database of this type and then use
the TTable/TDatabase etc components that work for
Paradox tables.

I've never tried this and have no idea what sorts
of restrictions apply to the format of the files, or
how you define fields etc.

It might be what you are looking for.

-ns



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