James
Well its a little more structured, I was thinking
Create TCollection
while not EOF
begin
read binary data to record
insert collection item and assign record data to it
end
....
Neven
----- Original Message -----
From: James Sugrue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2001 15:30
Subject: RE: [DUG]: Clientdataset
> Neven,
> Looks sort of what I was after. This seems to only deal with Text Files
> however. The Flat Files are Binary data. Haven't had a major look at it
> though.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neven MacEwan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2001 15:06
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: Re: [DUG]: Clientdataset
>
>
> James
>
> There are prob quite a few 'in memory' datasets you could use
>
> I found this article interesting
> http://www.delphi3000.com/articles/article_1871.asp
>
> seemed a relatively simple solution (and could be altered to buffer a
single
> record)
>
> Neven
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: James Sugrue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2001 14:41
> Subject: [DUG]: Clientdataset
>
>
> > G'day all,
> >
> > We have an app which sits on top of another Dos app. At the moment there
> is
> > two sets of data files, the dos apps data files and Our apps data files.
> The
> > contents of the files are identical, except that the Delphi apps are in
> > Paradox, whereas the Dos apps are a flat file format.
> >
> > Basically I want to eliminate the Paradox files, and just use the flat
> > files. I am considering deriving ClientDataSets to read the flat files
and
> > allow our app to stil use DBComponents etc. We don't need to write back
to
> > the flat files, just read from them.
> >
> > Are there any sites or articles that anyone knows of, that does
something
> > like the above. I have found a few, but they just use the LoadFromFile
> > method, which I am guessing will only work once the flat files have been
> > converted into the format the CDS can understand.
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
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