Neven,
Looks sort of what I was after. This seems to only deal with Text Files
however. The Flat Files are Binary data. Haven't had a major look at it
though.
Cheers
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Neven MacEwan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2001 15:06
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
Subject: Re: [DUG]: Clientdataset
James
There are prob quite a few 'in memory' datasets you could use
I found this article interesting
http://www.delphi3000.com/articles/article_1871.asp
seemed a relatively simple solution (and could be altered to buffer a single
record)
Neven
----- Original Message -----
From: James Sugrue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2001 14:41
Subject: [DUG]: Clientdataset
> G'day all,
>
> We have an app which sits on top of another Dos app. At the moment there
is
> two sets of data files, the dos apps data files and Our apps data files.
The
> contents of the files are identical, except that the Delphi apps are in
> Paradox, whereas the Dos apps are a flat file format.
>
> 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.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Jim
>
>
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