John,

> Should this be platform-independent (i.e., should I be able to run it on a
> Mac OS 9 client)? I'm used to Type 4 drivers and I don't believe I've used
> a Type 3 one.

We have done some very very minimal testing a long time ago and yes
interclient (I think this was approix verrsion 1.5) did work on Mac OS 9.

The key (and clearly obvious) point is that Interserver and Firebird
themselves don't run on Mac's so the "server" needs to be Linux or
Windows etc.

Dave
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