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How to find your engine
How to discover the location of your BDE installation

Tip #: 6.1.147
Ver(s):PTWin32, V2, V1

If you use PTWin32 then you have a copy of the Borland Database Engine (BDE) installed on your computer. The BDE is what PTWin32 uses to access the data in your tables.

The BDE is a common software layer that is used by many commercial software programs. Products by Corel, Novell, and many others might have installed a copy of the BDE on your computer before you ever installed PTWin32.

As a result, the BDE on your hard drive may have been installed in any number of locations. The location doesn’t really matter as long as all of the programs that use the BDE know where it is 

If PTWin32 is the first application to install the BDE on your computer then you will usually find the BDE files in \Program Files\Borland\Common Files\BDE

If your copy of the BDE does not appear at the end of the path specified above then another one of your software programs has installed it to a different location.

To find the location of the BDE files on your computer simply go into the BDE Configuration program that appears in the PTWin32 Program Group of Windows. Once executed the title bar of the BDE Configuration window will list the location of the BDE files.

 

 

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