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- File: Readib.txt
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- Readme file for Local InterBase Server for Windows WI-V4.2.1
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- (c) 1996 Borland International, Inc. All rights reserved
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- WELCOME TO BORLAND LOCAL INTERBASE SERVER FOR WINDOWS VERSION 4.2.1
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- This document contains information that supplements or clarifies
- information that appears in the Help files and printed documentation
- provided with the Local InterBase Server for Windows.
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- To print this document from your word processor, use the Print command
- on the File menu.
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- Topics
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- Important Installation Notes
- New Features in this Release
- ODBC Driver
- Internet Developer Information
- Known Issues
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- IMPORTANT Installation Notes
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- The InterBase Developer Client V4.2.x and the InterBase Server
- V4.2.x can be installed on the same system. This is not true
- for earlier releases of the product. DO NOT install the InterBase
- Server V4.1 (or earlier) for Windows NT and any version of the
- InterBase Developer Client on the same system.
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- New Features in this Release
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- * Local InterBase Server now allows for remote connections to other
- InterBase Servers.
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- ODBC Driver
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- Uninstall is not supported for the InterBase ODBC driver and the
- ODBC Driver manager.
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- Help for the ODBC driver is available by double clicking the
- "InterBase ODBC Driver Help" icon in the InterBase Server program
- group.
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- The ODBC Administrator may be started from either the ODBC program
- group or the control panel.
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- * System Data Source Names (DSN)
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- The InterBase ODBC driver now supports system DSNs
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- * ODBC Conformance Levels
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- The InterBase ODBC driver is ODBC 2.5 compliant. It supports API
- Level 1 and Core SQL Grammar. For specific ODBC calls that are
- supported, refer to the InterBase ODBC Driver on-line help.
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- * Limitations and Known Problems
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- This version of the InterBase ODBC Driver does not support array
- datatypes.
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- Internet Developer Information
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- * InterBase is now compatible with Microsoft's Information Server
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- * The Java client for InterBase (InterClient) can now be downloaded
- from Borland's web site at
- http://www.borland.com/interbase/interclient
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- Known Issues
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- WISQL and ISQL both require that your TMP environment variable is set
- and points to a valid directory on your machine. If this is not set or
- the directory it points to does not exist, WISQL and ISQL may not
- work properly.
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- Accessing InterBase tables via ODBC which contain character fields
- which are declared as being longer than 255 characters may not work
- properly under some circumstances.
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