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Old 02-10-04, 07:28
wishknew wishknew is offline
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ODBC Driver for Btrieve 5.10a

Hello,

Anyone please let me know where can I download (hopefully free) ODBC Driver for Btrieve 5.10a (under Novell - DOS).
Thank you.
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Old 02-10-04, 11:02
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First off, Btrieve 5.10a is very old (I think it was released in 1990).
Secondly, the concept of ODBC was introduced in Windows and was never extended to DOS. If you've only got a DOS interface to the data, you will not be able to use ODBC.

While not free, you might be able to use the current version of Btrieve (called Pervasive.SQL V8). It reads old files and includes an ODBC driver. One thing to note, you will need DDFs for the ODBC driver. If you don't have them but know the record structure, you should be able to create them.
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Old 02-11-04, 01:01
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First off, Btrieve 5.10a is very old (I think it was released in 1990).
Secondly, the concept of ODBC was introduced in Windows and was never extended to DOS. If you've only got a DOS interface to the data, you will not be able to use ODBC.

While not free, you might be able to use the current version of Btrieve (called Pervasive.SQL V8). It reads old files and includes an ODBC driver. One thing to note, you will need DDFs for the ODBC driver. If you don't have them but know the record structure, you should be able to create them.
Ok. Thank's a lot! Probably I will suggest my client to upgrade the entire application and database.
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Old 02-12-04, 12:00
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As the posted reply states, Btrieve 5.10 is quite old and no longer supported.

We provide a white paper to help those migrating from Btrieve 6.15 to Pervasive.SQL V8. It may help you and your client. You can access the white paper here:
http://www.pervasive.com/documentati...rading6_V8.pdf

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Ok. Thank's a lot! Probably I will suggest my client to upgrade the entire application and database.
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