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darkl...@Access.Mountain.Net (Brian McClure)

Delphi Developer
Thu, 15 Jan 1998 03:00:00 GMT

Help: Adding alias to IDAPIredestributeable at install time

First sorry for the title line my mailer seens to have eaten it a little...

What i am needing to know is after i have written my program and i am
wanting to distribute it using the included redistributable IDAPI install
how do i setup the newly installed IDAPI to have the aliases that i used
in my program..without haveing the user do it manually and make a mess of
things..

thanks in advance
please email any responces as i don't always have time to read the groups

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Steve Koters

Delphi Developer
Fri, 16 Jan 1998 03:00:00 GMT

Re:Help: Adding alias to IDAPIredestributeable at install time


Quote
Brian McClure (darkl...@Access.Mountain.Net) wrote:

: First sorry for the title line my mailer seens to have eaten it a little...

: What i am needing to know is after i have written my program and i am
: wanting to distribute it using the included redistributable IDAPI install
: how do i setup the newly installed IDAPI to have the aliases that i used
: in my program..without haveing the user do it manually and make a mess of
: things..

Look in comp.lang.pascal.delphi.databases, I will be posting a custom
component that interfaces with the BDE and provides this functionality.
The custom component is called AliasMan, and is also available for down-
load from the Delphi forum on CompuServe (GO DELPHI).

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