> I've read more than once in the IB newsgroups that IB 6 will quite safely
> access an IB5 database (as dialect 1) and even earlier versions,
> notwithstanding what it says in the manual. The manuals are good but it's
> known that they're not perfect, so a little less "RTFM" if you please.
>
Fair enough. There was a "warning" when it was betathat it wouldn't open
them at all - I guess they fixed it.
Still, a backup/restore is the recommended way to go between
versions - always has been.
> Having said that, there was a discussion only yesterday that warned of a
> bug, such that you may not be able to access the database in 5.6 afterwards!
> See the "Warning: IB6 and backward compatibility" thread in
> mers.interbase.list. The safest course will always be to backup and
> restore.
Exactly.
:)
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