I'm looking for a DLL or similar to provide very simple DB access.
I have an application that needs to simply store some data, do some simple
searches and maybe delete.  

I normally use things like Access, Watcom and the like, but they require I send
many Megs of DLL's making my simple little app a royal pain to install.  It
also costs a lot more to send this app on more than one diskette. And yes I do
know I can compress the files down, but that doesn't improve the footprint
required on the host machine nor does it make it any faster. (I find Access to
be a dog on older machines, and my app doesn't require much horsepower, so
I don't want the DB to require it either.)

I was planning on writing a few API calls and just use a simple Flat file
design of my own, but I'm sure there is something either home-grown or
commercially available that will do the trick here.

Anyone know of anything either Shareware or at least under $50 bucks.

Thanx!

Russcky

Russcky:

Have you taken a peek at the "visdata.mak" that comes with VB?  It's quite
handy and, geez, the price is ABSOLUTELY right...

Regards

Byron Hurder
Newington CT

There are many DB3 units (with sources) availible for Pascal that
works for Delphi as wel. For Delphi specific there is a dBase III
component on one of the Delphi sites on the net, look at the Delphi
Station.

But if its really simple what you want, why not use the Type Record
definitions from  Pascal (Delphi) itself? These are very easy to use
and there is absolutly no faster (ans smaller) way.

Something like:

TYPE
  TMyRecord = Record
                              Name         : String[35];
                              FirstName : String[15];
                            End;
VAR
  MyRec : TMyRecord;
  MyFile  : File of TMyRecord;

If you make a linked list of the records it is extremly powerfull and
fast. And the best thing is, no DLL's needed, just native Pascal code.
Ofcourse in this case you have to write the searche code yourself, but
that isn't to difficult.

Bye,
        Scott.