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You could avoid using IDAPI.CFG at all. I believe this will help you out :<br />
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<a href="http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/burks/language/pascal/uddf/pages/bde.htm#bde0" rel="ugc">http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/burks/language/pascal/uddf/pages/bde.htm#bde0</a><br />
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Regards,<br />
Sokpas
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You could avoid using IDAPI.CFG at all. I believe this will help you out :

http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/burks/language/pascal/uddf/pages/bde.htm#bde0 [http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/burks/language/pascal/uddf/pages/bde.htm#bde0]

Regards,
Sokpas

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Setting the alias isn't the problem I know how to do that.<br />
It getting hold of things like the memsize/sharedmemsize.. (from system/init) and restoring them to 'our' preferred values.<br />
I know I can set all these at run-time,but I wanted to know if I could just state &nbsp;I want to use an idapi.cfg file from another directory in preference.
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Setting the alias isn't the problem I know how to do that.
It getting hold of things like the memsize/sharedmemsize.. (from system/init) and restoring them to 'our' preferred values.
I know I can set all these at run-time,but I wanted to know if I could just state  I want to use an idapi.cfg file from another directory in preference.

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I work out how to do via dbinit, customer now happpy
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I work out how to do via dbinit, customer now happpy

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We have to install our s/w on a client PC which already uses the BDE idapi.cfg, but our application requires different settings of the BDE.<br />
How do I access another idapi.cfg file at run-time so I don't effect the existing application.<br />
I am using delphi.
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We have to install our s/w on a client PC which already uses the BDE idapi.cfg, but our application requires different settings of the BDE.
How do I access another idapi.cfg file at run-time so I don't effect the existing application.
I am using delphi.

How do I use  Multiple Idapi files

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