The BDE works fine but Borland requires that all files be shipped with
an application. That adds about 1.5MB (compressed).

I would like to distribute my application over the internet but with the
BDE a lot of people wouldn't want to download that large of a file.

Also, with Delphi 1.0, you must use Borland's install program for it.
That would be tacky. Delphi 3.0 ships with a trimmed down version of
'InstallShield' which handles installation of the BDE along with your
application. That's nice but it doesn't work with Windows 3.1.

The third party BDE replacement that I tried would have only added about
100K but caused several bugs in my application that aren't there when I
use the BDE.

I'm new at this so if I'm missing something, I would appreciate any
advice.

 I am doing exactly what it is you are talking about.. I use some shareware
called Halcyon. Works great, no, dlls, no memory leaks etc. All you end up
with is an exe .  If you look at my site, you will were I used it to make my
classified section. Http://www.astoria.com

Halcyon can be downloaded  from http://www.grifsolu.com

--
Gordon Hamm
Voice Data Systems Inc.
Astoria Communications
360-686-8315

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