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WELCOME TO INTERBASE 5.6
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TRIAL EDITION - PRE-INSTALLATION NOTES

This is an evaluation copy of InterBase.

When prompted for license information, 
please use "eval" for the id and Key fields

This gives a 90 day fully functional 5 user
license for the use of the product
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Installation notes and issues for InterBase 5.6
for Windows NT and Windows 95/98.

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INSTALLING INTERBASE 5.6

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

Windows system requirements: Windows 95 with
the Y2K patch, Windows 98, or Windows NT 4.0 
with Service Pack 4. (Microsoft has 
re-released this service pack, which is now
a 72.8MB file called "SP4 Full Download".) 
A full install that includes InterBase, InterClient,
Adobe Acrobat Reader, and the full document
set requires approximately 36MB of disk space.
Only 11MB is needed to install the InterBase
product without InterClient, the documents, or
Acrobat Reader.

You cannot install InterBase onto a network
drive.

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OLDER VERSIONS OF INTERBASE

It is recommended that you uninstall any
previous versions of InterBase prior to
InterBase 5 that are present on the server 
where you are installing the InterBase 5.6 
software. With this software, as with any 
software, it is recommended to remove any 
field test versions prior to installing. 
If InterBase 4.1 or earlier is present on 
your database server, you *must* uninstall 
it before proceeding with the Version 5.6 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 gds32.dll exists on the
server because you have previously
installed Borland Database Engine as part
of Delphi, C++Builder, or another Borland
product, or because InterBase 4.1 or earlier
was installed on the server, you must
remove the older gds32.dll file.

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All rights reserved.
