Running CAPE on Windows Vista
Beginning with the mid-July 2007 release of CAPE, CAPE runs on Windows Vista. You do need to observe the following database connection path syntax.
On Windows Vista, when connecting to a database located on a local hard drive, you cannot use a “standard” file path like:
C:\path\db.gdb
Instead, you must reference the database as if it is on a remote server, using a “remote” path syntax:
Server_name:c:\path\db.gdb
Or:
\\server_name\c:path\db.gdb
In the case of a database located on the local C: drive, “server_name:” can be replaced with “localhost:”
Localhost:c:\path\db.gdb
This stems from an incompatibility between InterBase DBMS version 6 and Windows Vista. To eliminate this, we will be migrating to the Firebird DBMS. Firebird is an Open Source fork of the InterBase source code, so it is highly compatible with existing CAPE databases.
There are a few minor changes that must be made to the CAPE database structure before we can migrate to Firebird. CAPE database schema 3.5 will address these issues. Once we put the finishing touches on schema 3.5, we will start shipping Firebird with CAPE.
January, 2008
