Merlin’s Delphi Forge

For many reasons you may need the installed BDE (Borland Database Engine) version. One of them (the main one probably) is that BDE versions are not always compatible with each other. Therefore you may want to use different code/components at runtime.
Use the code below to determine what version of BDE is installed on the system. [...]

There are various ways to copy/duplicate databases. Using TBatchMover you can copy the structure and data but can’t copy the index files. Then again when you use FileCopy() you can’t copy the tables corresponding index files automatically and you have to define all the files. One of the ways to duplicate a database is to [...]