John,

> This is what I originally thought you wanted to do. But I guess it
> needs asking. Are you trying to create your own brand of FB server
> (maybe listening on a different port), or creating your own custom
> server (where FB doesn't handle network connections at all) and
> simply want to use FB as the embedded data storage/query component
> of that server? I assumed the later. In fact, the later is
> probably easier.

Latter. However, I would avoid calling it a server. This is an
application built with the same code as we use on server. On server
side we are happy with Firebird server process. On desktop we have
single-user single-threaded application that has a part of a database
we have on the server. This application does not accept any network
connections, it is invoked manually (or automatically) when PDA is
connected to a desktop. The only thing this application is supposed
to do, is to execute some selects on database and upload them to the
PDA.

Dmitry Yermanov already sent me an embeddable gds32.dll and I will
try it on the weekend.

Best regards,
Roman Rokytskyy