Borland International Inc has taken its Paradox relational database into the C language world with the introduction of the Paradox Engine, a C library designed to open the architecture of Paradox and give corporate developers new ways to create and manage data. The Paradox Engine enables C programmers to build applications that create or access Paradox data, and such programs are standard EXE files, so that applications can access and manipulate Paradox tables. Technology from the core of Paradox was extracted to to build the Paradox Engine, the Scotts Valley company says. It provides an applications programming interface of more than 70 functions for manipulating tables in single and multi-user environments. It comes in the form of a C library that can be linked with any C program. Database functions include ones to create, read and write Paradox tables, records and fields with support for Paradox multi-user concurrency control; index and sequential access methods are supported, as are Paradox data security features. The C version of the Paradox Engine is expected to ship during first quarter of 1990 at $500, but registered users get it for $200 for the first 90 days after the launch. A Pascal version is planned for the first half of 1990, and Paradox for OS/2 and for Windows are also under development.
