ChimneySweep® (for Paradox/BDE Databases)

ChimneySweep® for Windows can repair, maintain, and safely back-up an entire Paradox® database with just one double-click of the mouse.

ChimneySweep is a job-oriented product:

1. First, you create a “job,” which tells ChimneySweep everything it needs to know in order to do what you want it to do. (The point-and-click Job Editor leads you step by step through the entire process.)
2. Then, you can run the job as often as you like, with just a double-click. Once started, the job runs to completion without any further human intervention. There are no further questions to ask, or decisions to make. The job will process all of the databases and tables that you've specified.

It comes in three Editions:

• Traditional Edition   builds jobs using an easy point-and-click “wizard,” and runs them anytime thereafter with a double-click of the mouse.
  (This is probably the one that you want.)
• Runtime Edition   can run jobs, but cannot build or edit them.
• Professional Edition   places the full power of ChimneySweep into the hands of software developers who wish to use its most-advanced features or to integrate it into their own software product.

It's seamlessly “16- and 32-bit” ... since 1996!   Like every previous version of this product, ChimneySweep 5.1 is expressly designed above all to work identically in both 16-bit (IDAPI™) and 32-bit (BDE™) environments. Both versions of the product (both of which you get in one package for one price) look and act the same, and run one another's jobs as identically as the two environments allow. Therefore, the visual characteristics (and inherent limitations) of the 16-bit environment are “the ruling design constraint,” and this effect can be clearly seen. (It may seem to be a bit, well, “old-fashioned” now, because ChimneySweep 5.1 does not have many user-interface goodies that we have since come to expect. The installer, also, is 16-bit.) This is by design, however, and it has been an important feature of this product for many years. All future versions of ChimneySweep will be “32-bit only,” and their features and user-interface will reflect this. Full backward-compatibility with all existing jobs will be retained.

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