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Today’s computer users demand direct and easy access to personal and corporate data using popular off-the-shelf applications. Microsoft Corporation’s ODBC standard provides this type of open connectivity.
Database drivers that map a particular vendor’s API (Application Programming Interface) to the ODBC standard API make this connection possible. This process is analogous to Windows printer drivers. The printer drivers allow an application developer to support virtually every printer. The developer programs to the Windows printer interface and the printer manufacturer provides a driver that works with the Windows interface to drive the printer. Though database portability is more complicated than the printer support the two are conceptually similar.
The c-tree ODBC Driver gives ODBC compliant applications, like Microsoft Access, Seagate Crystal Reports, and Visual Basic, access to c-tree Plus files.
