How do I solve the "Cannot perform this operation on a closed dataset" with Borland Database Engine and a Delphi application?

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Geoffrey picture Geoffrey · Jul 21, 2011 · Viewed 69.7k times · Source

The application was working perfectly, until I edited the user database (*.dbf) in OpenOffice.org Calc. Now it gives me the above error about a closed dataset.

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Im0rtality picture Im0rtality · Jul 21, 2011

Error message says, that your dataset is not open. Seems you forgot to Open it or you Closed it somewhere.

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