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- From: grantp@usa.pipeline.com(Pete)
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- Subject: Re: BC 5.0? 32-bit BDE?
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 12:06:48 GMT
- Organization: Kalevi, Inc.
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- On Feb 02, 1996 22:24:15 in article <Re: BC 5.0? 32-bit BDE?>,
- 'jalten@cs.vu.nl (Alten JP)' wrote:
-
- >BDE stands for Borland Database Engine, which gives you full access
- >to Paradox and DBase databases, and more, using the core
- >of all the Borland database programs, called IDAPI.
- >As for now, it only exists in a 16 bit Windows version, with a
- >C interface. It would be nice if a new C++ interface will be
- >added and support for 32 bit Windows. I'm using a
- >C++ wrapper for the BDE myself, which makes it usable for me.
- >BDE is very powerful.
- >
- This is getting a bit off topic, but I'm sure I'm not the only one
- interested.
-
- How is it powerful? "Very powerful" implies that it's more so
- than its competitors' products. Seems like just the opposite
- is true if you must write your own wrapper classes.
-
- The news release about 5.0 didn't mention anything about
- the new OWL database classes. I can't imagine Borland
- not providing them -- they really should have implemented
- at least ODBC classes in 4.5x.
-
- --
- Pete Grant
- Kalevi, Inc.
- Object Oriented Software Development
-