Hi

    An upgrade to MDAC 2.5 from MDAC 1.5 stopped access to dBase tables working dead in its 

tracks.



    The full story of this is told in a post in proasp_howto entitled MDAC 2.5 - A Killer (did not 

get any useful advice from that post)



    Having got a seriously major site not working and not being able to get it working for three 

days, my ISP found another server that was still running MDAC 1.5 and allowed me to copy the 

site to there. (What a major exercise that was !!!)



     It now works OK on there BUT the ISP wants the site back on the original server - so the 

problem needs to be solved.



    MS TechNet acknowledges that the upgrade will stop the dBase access in ASP files from 

working. It very helpfully says that we should install and use the BDE (Borland Database 

Engine) - Well I know about dBase and BDE - BDE was already installed but I installed the very 

latest version.



    I know that the BDE is there - I can see it, feel it, touch and modify it !!!

    Sadly the ODBC driver used by ASP files does not appear to know it is there though !!

    Hours have been spent playing with the ODBC thing from the control panel - all to no avail.





    Any help that anyone can give will be gratefully received



Pete (Northolt UK)



PS - Please do not suggest JET version 4 (see an earlier post from me with that title) - in 

another area (MS Newsgroups) where I posted the same query - I was told that JET is for MS 

Access only - not dBase





Ever feel like you were going around in circles ??? <VBGTTT> (Very Big Grin Thru The Tears)