Question:
Why am I getting an Unknown Internal Operating
System Error when opening a Paradox or dBASE Table?
Answer:
This error can occur when attempting to open a Paradox
or dBASE table whose language driver is not installed on
your computer. In most circumstances this means a bad
BDE install and BDE should be reinstalled.
One way to determine a likely bad install is by running
BDE administator and attempting to modify the langauge
driver for the Paradox driver. If only one language
driver is available, it indicates a bad install.
This problem is most likely to occur with BDE 5.0 when
deploying with a deployment tool that does not know about
BDE 5.0. The problem occurs because BDE 5.0 includes a
new mechanism for language drivers. To deploy BDE 5.0
language driver features with an older development tool
be sure include BANTAM.DLL and *.BTL from the BDE
directory on your deployment machine.