Inporting Data from Informix 4GL to some envirnment in a PC

Dear Friend, First of all, I would like to say that I am out of DataBase programming for quite a long. So I have lost a lot of terminology. Anyway I think this is a nice place to ask for some help. Here's the problem. I have a DataBase in a Olivetti Unix Station that has an application written in Informix 4GL (I know that this is old Informix), and I woul like to read all the data to a PC, and then build some application using Delphi 2.0. I think it is possible to read the data in three ways: * wite a C application that reads and converts the data for some known format (in PC). I think this is old style and as so I would like to avoid it. * use Q+E that uses Informix data remotely. I must say that I don't know the state of the art about Q+E. In 1991 some friends of mine do it this way. Is this a good way of doing things? I think this involves a lot of programming... * Using a particular driver from OBDC. Is this possible? I am asking because I don't have this driver in my OBDC. If there is such a driver, can I get it from you with some short explanations about how to interface with the driver? I appreciate all of the help from you. Note, if there is some bibliography that is good for my state of knowledge, I would like you to pass the link. Again, Thanks from AA.