RtDbCopy Component Ver. 1.00
                       Copyright 1995 Tomasz Stanczak
                           Compuserve: 100735,3273

TBatchMove is a very powerful component, but it has several shortcomings.
What it cannot handle:
1) if you don't define a problem table and an error occurs, the whole
operation will be canceled
2) it cannot change field data types in most cases
3) it cannot influence field data, it's copied as it is

RtDbCopy is a replacement component, which offers:
1) before and after copy event, to do housekeeping actions
2) on every record event, to gauge the whole process or implement function
filter
3) on every field event, where you get the data being read and set data
being written, so that you can feed three destination fields from one
source field or do whatever is appropriate
4) on every error event, where you can ask the user to decide if he wants
to continue or break
5) through Mappings definition it lets you change field data types and/or
sizes

To achieve the best possible performance low-level BDE calls have been used
whenever I could. At the end it comes very close to TBatchMove speed-wise.

Files Included:
README.WRI       this file
RTREGDC.PAS unit to register RtDbCopy with Delphi
RTDBCOPY.PAS     RtDbCopy itself (DCU in the demo version and PAS in the
registered one)
RTDCEDIT.PAS/DFM Property Editor for Mappings property.
RTCONTS.PAS      Constants for this and/or my other components
RT.PAS           unit with general functions I need
TES1*.*                test projects
TES2*.*
LOGIN.*          Login dialog for the above projects
RTDBCOPY.HLP     RtDbCopy help file
RTDBCOPY.KWF     RtDbCopy keyword file
16\*.*                 Files specific to Delphi 1.0
32\*.*                 Files specific to Delphi 2.0

Installation:
Copy the RT*.DCR, RT*.DCU and RT*.RES files to the same directory,
including files from appropriate subdirectory(16\ or 32\). Then follow the
Delphi instuctions for installing components. Both HLP and KWF files should
probably be copied into DELPHI\BIN, the KWF is the keyword file, which can
be installed with HELPINST.EXE.

Test projects:
With TES1 project you can batCopy every table you will. After choosing
source table its structure will be shown in a StringGrid, so that you can
edit destination field names, types and sizes. Then the batCopy progress
will be shown with TGauge using OnRecord event, and every string field in
will be uppercased in OnField event.
TES2 project lets you chose both source and destination table, copy mode,
and then compare performance of both TBatchMove and TRtDbCopy.

Known problems:
There is one problem I'm aware of, but I don't have any solution to it.
This component cannot create new tables with Foxpro/dBase through ODBC,
with both  Microsoft and Intersolv drivers. The error lies not in the
component itself, but in the TTable's CreateTable method, because Borland's
TBatchMove has the same problem.

Registration

License fees:
RtDbCopy alone, license fee is $20 (30 DM) plus $2 (3 DM) s&h
as a part of RtControls, licence fee $39 (60 DM) plus $2 (3 DM) s&h

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