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The topics below describe the various aspects of a Borland Database Engine (BDE) program created in Borland C/C++.

•Project setup This section covers the basics of what must be done to set up a BDE project or makefile.

•Basic procedure An overview of the basic steps required to create a simple application that retrieves fields from a table. From each step you can jump to a detailed description of the procedure with code examples or to the sample template program.

•Chk function The complete code for the Chk function, which returns more complete error information about BDE functions than would be returned by the standard error string.

•Template program A sample BDE program structure you can use as a convenient template for creating your own applications.