I also develop in Delphi in addition to VFP. I have read the same thing, but the disclaimer applies only to the BDE 5.0 and higher from what I have seen. If you could use the BDE 4.51, I would think that you should have no problems. I have a job that runs each night updating a FoxPro 2.6 table with indexes without a corruption yet.

Unfortunately, from my experience, it seems that the final Delphi EXE knows what BDE you used during development, and will not run without it present. Is it the same in C++ Builder? Thus, you'll have to recompile to distribute both a new EXE and the BDE 4.51...

So, I hope you distributed the older BDE like 4.51. If so, I wouldn't worry about it too much.

HTH,

Jack Mendenhall


>I've put this post here because i know your ability to be helpfull.
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>From Inprise :
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>"Extended testing of the FoxPro driver has shown it may cause corrupted indexes, crashes or Access Violations when a FoxPro index is updated. Therefore, we recommend read only use of the FoxPro driver at this time. This applies to all versions of the BDE FoxPro driver. "
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>We have an app built on C from borland in 1500 sites and of course use BDE Foxpro driver.
>Obviously, this app use extensively memo and cdx so a upgrade <g> from fox2.6 to dBase driver isn't a good solution because of the difficulties we shall meet to update the data structure (and the app too).
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>Does anybody have some informations/workaround on this problem...
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>Thanks a lot