
ODBCExpress Version 5.07
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Licensing Information
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The ShareWare versions of ODBCExpress can be used for evaluation purposes only.
The Registered versions of ODBCExpress can be used, royalty free, in any way not
in competition with ODBCExpress.  That is, it cannot be used to create and
market a library similar to ODBCExpress, which can be used to give an
application data access capabilities.  The file LICENSE.TXT contains complete
licensing information on ODBCExpress.

The ShareWare versions of ODBCExpress are not crippled in any way.  It is
identical to the registered versions, except for the registration dialog which
appears every time an application using the ODBCExpress library is loaded into
memory.  The grid TExtendedGrid is also included, on the condition that it is
only used together with ODBCExpress, and not as a stand-alone grid.


Registration Information
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For pricing and registration details of ODBCExpress, see our web site at
http://www.odbcexpress.com or e-mail sales@odbcexpress.com for information.

Online-ordering can be done at this web site.  Alternatively you can also print
out and fax the file ORDER.TXT to order ODBCExpress.


ODBCExpress Support
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As a first solution to any problems experienced using ODBCExpress, search the
knowledge base at our web site.

Questions and problems experienced can be posted to the ODBCExpress discussion
group, which can be found at news://news.korbitec.com/datasoft.odbcexpress


Installation Instructions
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The following steps describe how to manually install ODBCExpress.

Before installing ODBCExpress make sure that you have unixODBC 2.2 or higher
installed on the machine.  Check out the "Additional Downloads" section of the
Download page at our web site for pointers to unixODBC.


Kylix

The following steps describe how to un-install a previous version of ODBCExpress
before installing the new version:
1.  Select "Component/Install Packages" from the Kylix IDE.
2.  Select the "ODBCExpress" package in the "Design packages" list box and click
    on the "Remove" button.
3.  Click "OK" to remove the package.
4.  Select "Tools/Environment Options" from the Kylix IDE.
5.  Select the "Library" tab.
6.  Remove any references to directories that contain ODBCExpress components
    from the "Library Path" edit box.

The following steps describe how to install ODBCExpress:
1.  Select "Component/Install Packages" from the Kylix IDE.
2.  Click on the "Add" button and select the package file bplOE.so in the
    "Package" directory of the zip file
3.  Click "OK" to install the package.
4.  Select "Tools/Environment Options" from the Kylix IDE.
5.  Select the "Library" tab.
6.  Add the "Lib" and "Package" directories of the zip file to the
    "Library Path" edit box.

You must have unixODBC installed to use ODBCExpress for Kylix:
1.  unixODBC can be downloaded from http://www.unixodbc.com.  Follow the
    instructions on their download page to install unixODBC.  Select all the
    default options.
2.  After installing unixODBC, make sure that you have "/usr/local/lib" as part
    of your LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable in your ".bash_profile" file.


ODBC Driver Compatibility
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The ODBCExpress library works with all ODBC drivers with at least a level 1 API
conformance.  ODBCExpress is not dependent on the SQL conformance of the ODBC
drivers.  The ODBC library used must be version 3.0 or higher.  It is
recommended that you use the latest version of unixODBC, which can be found at
http://www.unixodbc.com, with ODBCExpress.  ODBC drivers can be obtained from
the database vendors.  unixODBC also ships with some ODBC drivers.


Downloading ODBCExpress
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ODBCExpress can be downloaded from our web site at http://www.odbcexpress.com
and from certain Delphi Component web sites.
