>When I run the application, before the opening form appears I get a fatal
>error "EDatabase Error: Error occurred while attempting to initalise
>Borland Database Engine. Error $2108". Is this implying that the EXE file
>isn't self-contained and is trying to refer to some DLLs?

>If so, which DLLs are needed, where should they be placed and where is this
>information documented?

>I'm using Delphi 1.

>If so, which DLLs are needed, where should they be placed and where is this
>information documented?

>I'm using Delphi 1.

>--
>Jason Wallace
>SL Software
>Dark...@SLSoftware.reno.nv.us
>--
>"We are Microsoft.  Resistance is Futile.  You will be Assimiliated."

>Martin Underwood wrote in message <01bd1eac$aabf16a0$LocalHost@mu>...
>>Having built a database application which uses Paradox or dBASE tables,
>>I've tried to run it on a PC which does not have Delphi installed. I've set
>>the Table.DatabaseName field in Object Inspector so its value is the
>>directory which contains the table and index files, as opposed to the name
>>of a pre-configured Alias. On the non-Delphi PC, I've copied the EXE file
>>and all the .DB, .XG0 etc files into a directory of the name that I set in
>>Object Inspector.

>>When I run the application, before the opening form appears I get a fatal
>>error "EDatabase Error: Error occurred while attempting to initalise
>>Borland Database Engine. Error $2108". Is this implying that the EXE file
>>isn't self-contained and is trying to refer to some DLLs?

>>If so, which DLLs are needed, where should they be placed and where is this
>>information documented?

>>I'm using Delphi 1.

>I sympathise with Martin.   It does not matter how well documented a
>subject is if you don't know its there it might as well not be.

>I too am interested in this thread and have refered to the readme file
>that Jason suggests but although I am not new to coding or computing,
>just Delphi, I find it extremely difficult to understand, in fact, I
>have read it and re-read it and still do not understand it or see how it
>answeres Martins question.

>Although it is probably a dirty word in this group I have found the
>Borland documentation and help screens inferior to those provided with
>Microsoft products.

>>  It's very well documented....  Look in the REDIST directory on your CD,
>>and install the BDE as the Read.me file and several other sources tell
>>you....

>>--
>>Jason Wallace
>>SL Software
>>Dark...@SLSoftware.reno.nv.us
>>--
>>"We are Microsoft.  Resistance is Futile.  You will be Assimiliated."

>>Martin Underwood wrote in message <01bd1eac$aabf16a0$LocalHost@mu>...
>>>Having built a database application which uses Paradox or dBASE tables,
>>>I've tried to run it on a PC which does not have Delphi installed. I've
set
>>>the Table.DatabaseName field in Object Inspector so its value is the
>>>directory which contains the table and index files, as opposed to the
name
>>>of a pre-configured Alias. On the non-Delphi PC, I've copied the EXE file
>>>and all the .DB, .XG0 etc files into a directory of the name that I set
in
>>>Object Inspector.

>>>When I run the application, before the opening form appears I get a fatal
>>>error "EDatabase Error: Error occurred while attempting to initalise
>>>Borland Database Engine. Error $2108". Is this implying that the EXE file
>>>isn't self-contained and is trying to refer to some DLLs?

>>>If so, which DLLs are needed, where should they be placed and where is
this
>>>information documented?

>>>I'm using Delphi 1.

>--

>Regards Alex. Shaw

>(Please reply to news group)

> When I run the application, before the opening form appears I get a fatal
> error "EDatabase Error: Error occurred while attempting to initalise
> Borland Database Engine. Error $2108". Is this implying that the EXE file
> isn't self-contained and is trying to refer to some DLLs?

> If so, which DLLs are needed, where should they be placed and where is this
> information documented?

> I'm using Delphi 1.