I am hoping that there is some Paradox experts left out there.  I have 
been tasked with an unusual contract to update an old Delphi 1 (!) 
application used by a financial firm which has never been updated. The 
company is now migrating off of XP to Windows 7 or 8 and need a hurry up 
upgrade.  Skipping all of the showstoppers I've run up against (obsolete 
components no longer available, Report Smith, etc.) my latest problem is 
that the Paradox tables they gave me to work with are giving me errors 
such as "VAL out of date" and "Index out of date" and I have not been 
able to fix them with what I have been able to find on the internet.  I 
need to be able to get the Paradox tables working so I can proceed to 
getting the application to work in Delphi 2, which would solve the 
immediate problem.  I have researched this on the internet and the 
results have been less than satisfactory, what with all of the changes 
to the BDE and its DLLS (dUtility.dll, dUtil32.dll) and the fixes no 
longer being available in many cases.

The ultimate goal is to completely re-write the application to work in 
the latest Delphi version, if possible, or an older one if necessary (D5 
or 7) and replace the database with something more modern.  This is 
going to take quite a while as the reports all have to be re-written and 
who knows what else.

Thanks for any help.

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Hi Mark

Using Delphi 2010 with paradox on windows in network, connecting via WIFI 
and connecting from and to any other.
VAL you can remove.

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"Mark Wallin"  wrote in message 
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>I am hoping that there is some Paradox experts left out there.  I have
> been tasked with an unusual contract to update an old Delphi 1 (!)
> application used by a financial firm which has never been updated. The
> company is now migrating off of XP to Windows 7 or 8 and need a hurry up
> upgrade.  Skipping all of the showstoppers I've run up against (obsolete
> components no longer available, Report Smith, etc.) my latest problem is
> that the Paradox tables they gave me to work with are giving me errors
> such as "VAL out of date" and "Index out of date" and I have not been
> able to fix them with what I have been able to find on the internet.  I
> need to be able to get the Paradox tables working so I can proceed to
> getting the application to work in Delphi 2, which would solve the
> immediate problem.  I have researched this on the internet and the
> results have been less than satisfactory, what with all of the changes
> to the BDE and its DLLS (dUtility.dll, dUtil32.dll) and the fixes no
> longer being available in many cases.
>
> The ultimate goal is to completely re-write the application to work in
> the latest Delphi version, if possible, or an older one if necessary (D5
> or 7) and replace the database with something more modern.  This is
> going to take quite a while as the reports all have to be re-written and
> who knows what else.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
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