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              WELCOME TO INTERBASE 5
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Installation notes and issues for InterBase 5 for
Windows NT and Windows 95.

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OLDER VERSIONS OF INTERBASE

It is recommended that you uninstall any previous 
versions of InterBase that are present on the server 
where you are installing the InterBase 5 software`
including the 5.0 beta release. If InterBase 4.1 or
earlier is present on your database server, you *must*
uninstall it before proceeding with the Version 5 install.

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GDS32.DLL

There must be one and only one copy of gds32.dll on the 
server where InterBase 5 is running. If this file 
exists on the server because you have previously 
installed Borland Database Engine field tests, or because 
InterBase 4.1 or earlier was installed on the server, you 
must remove it before installing InterBase 5.

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INSTALLING INTERBASE 5

Complete installation instructions are in Chapter 3 of the 
Operations Guide.

Windows system requirements: Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 95 
operating system and approximately 36MB of disk space for 
a full install that includes InterBase, InterClient, Adobe 
Acrobat Reader, and the full document set. Only 11MB is needed 
to install the InterBase product without InterClient, the 
documents, or Acrobat Reader.

You cannot install InterBase onto a network drive.

Testing the ODBC connection while the install is in 
progress may result in installation failure.

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