BDE Administrator help recompiled

The WinHelp BDEADMIN.hlp recompiled into WebHelp

This manual on the BDE Administrator is reverse recompiled from the original WinHelp format BDEADMIN.hlp from Borland/Inprise.
Original file date: January 17, 2000, Inprise Corporation.

BDE32 and Windows Registry

With the 32-bit version of BDE all the settings except the Paradox NET-FILE location (NET DIR) and all the database alias settings have been duplicated to the Windows Registry.

WebHelp implementation

No editing or additions have been done to the source code.
However throughout this recompilation lots of reformatting was necessary to comply with the transition from WinHelp to HTML-based help.
Links/jumps to deprecated external WinHelp-files (e.g. LocalSQL.hlp, BDE32.hlp and SQLlinks.hlp) had to be cleared.
The popup topics of the original WinHelp file will display as regular topics.
The See also/Related topics cross linking lists based on WinHelp associative A-Keywords, not compatible with WebHelp, have been discarded.

The recompilation project

This recompiled manual is a non-sponsored non-profit project and is independent and of no responsibility of the issuers of the original manual as well as the current owner (Embarcadero) of the BDE code. First recompiled edition: 2 Dec. 2023.

WebHelp compilation is mediated using the Help & Manual help authoring tool from EC Software GmbH.

14 June 2025, Niels Knabe