Installing the Driver

Place the installation floppy disk into floppy drive a or b.

Windows 3.x, Windows NT 3.x: In Program Manager, select the Run menu option from the File menu. Type into the resulting dialog in the box provided: a:\setup or b:\setup depending on the drive you placed the disk in. Click on OK.

Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0: From the Start menu, select the Run item. Type into the box provided: a:\setup or b:\setup depending on the drive you placed the disk in. Click on OK.

Follow the instructions to install the driver and documentation.

Most of these elements can also be found in Superbase. The tables are Superbase SBF files. The indexes are Superbase index files (.1 to .999). The metadata, in a considerably abbreviated form, is stored in the SBD file and it describes the structure and some of the rules of the database file. The container is the directory where the files are located.

Upon considering how many Superbase customers design their database systems, with files located in one directory, or often also in subdirectories below the main directory, we enhanced the Superbase ODBC driver to support files in subdirectories within a single ODBC data source. The exact capabilities and restrictions are described elsewhere.

In order to access the Superbase files in a given directory, an ODBC data source must be created using the ODBC Administrator tool. This tool is normally located in the Control Panel. It is not possible to simply open the files directly.