I posted this message to the Third Party forum also.

I'm looking for 3rd party tools that will do the following:
1.  Direct connection (no BDE) to a lightweight database that stores memo
fields.
2.  A grid that can display memo fields in multiple lines per cell.  If
possible the cell height should automatically adjust to display the whole
memo.  If possible this cell height expansion is localized to the affected
cell and does not globally apply to all cells.

There may not be a single 3rd party tool that provide the above.  That's ok.
Any suggestion will be appreciated.

Hi,

If your looking for something just to run on a workstation.  Check out Advantage
Database Server (ADS).  The local version is free and does not require much when
it comes to redistributing.  Just a couple files within the working directory.
Very simple and very small.  Also ADS supports its own file format along with
other XBase formats.

 http://www.advantagedatabase.com

Good luck...............Brian

If you don't need multi user access Clientdatasets using savetoFile and
Loadfromfile are about as light weight  as you can get for a database.and memo
fields are supported.  If you need a database that supports multi user then
Dbisam is a good choice for the lightweight category
--
Brian Bushay (TeamB)
Bbus...@NMPLS.com