Re: which is better to use paradox table or dbase 5x


"shotokan99" <soft_devjava@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> the application must be light enough to run even on pI or pII machines
> and must be easy to maintain. firebird is good but is it light enough
> to run on the machines mentioned?

Firebird is lighter (1.7Mb DLL for embedded) and easier to install
(just have dll in application folder) and manage (none whatsoever)
than the BDE.
Minumin requirements 32kb RAM and 486 CPU.

PR


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