Poor Alias Support Install Shield Express Professional

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I bought IS Express Professioanl v1.1 for deploying
16-bit and 32-bit Delphi programs that use InterBase
databases.

When I want to deploy a 32-bit version of my delphi
programs, choosing and setting up the InterBase Aliases
is very simple. When choosing the type of alias, I am
offerred a list of :

DBASE
INTRBASE
MSSQL
ORACLE
PARADOX
SYBASE

When I tell IS that the target platform is 16 bit, the choice
of Aliases is reduced to :

DBASE
PARADOX

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is a MAJOR problem for anyone
wanting to deply 16-bit applications that use decent RDBMS.

InstallShields response seems to be....tough ****!

If I'm being very cynicle, and there is a solution, could
someone oblige and let me know.

Graham.

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On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 10:22:22 +0000, Graham McAnany
<graham.mcanany@blick.co.uk> wrote:
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is a MAJOR problem for anyone
>wanting to deply 16-bit applications that use decent RDBMS.
>
>InstallShields response seems to be....tough ****!

Could it be that the ODBC and other RDBMS sources are 32-bit only? Then it
will reduce it to those that are 16-bit or have 16-bit drivers installed.

Happy coding

Stefan Paetow
ellipse data systems

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