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Re: Borland Paradox Engine V3.0, AF?

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From: fred j mccall 575-3539
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 22:46
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In <Bx9DHH.4wL@news.udel.edu> mike@ravel.udel.edu (Michael James Porter) writes:

>Has anyone seen or used the new Paradox Engine?  How does the
>application framework seem?  Is it worth the $100?

>(As a registered owner of something (Paradox, BC++?), I received
>an offer to purchase the new engine for $99, and the engine along
>with the AF for $199.  Something called Crystal Reports is 
>also thrown in)

>Is it possible to write a Windows 3.1 program that makes use of the
>engine?  Paradox 3.5 has a 'Like' operator that seems to do
>inexact name searching on a table when doing queries. Is this
>also available in the engine?

I can't speak to the new Engine, but the old one would most certainly
work under Window; it came with a Windows DLL that you had to include
and you had to load SHARE (to keep from having multiple things smash
your DB, I assume).

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From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Borland Paradox Engine V3.0, AF?
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