Btrieve and Crystal Report

[BettyM]

I have an old DOS program that uses btrieve version 6.15.925. I am on Win2000 Professional using Crystal Reports Developer for reports.

Crystal Reports included the btrieve drivers in version 7 and my reports ran well. I tried version 8 but my reports wouldn't run without the Pervasive client.

I thought version 9 of Crystal would include the btrieve drivers but no luck.

If I load Pervasive client, Pervasive is called whenever btrieve is called. I need to load the 6.15.925 DOS btrieve included in this old program for file sharing in the wide area network.

Is there another driver I can use or can I use ODBC to make version 9 work with the old btrieve database without effecting my old calls for this DOS program?

 

[TomKane]

We access our Btrieve data using ODBC DSNs - the performance may be an issue though...

 

[dgillz]

Does your btrieve application include .ddfs? If so you do not need the ODBC driver. Write your crystal report directly from the .ddfs. There are a few limitations, and performance can be an issue, but give this a shot and let me know what you think. Software Training and Support for Macola, Crystal Reports and Goldmine
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