> I have a mandrake linux server with firebird 6 RC1 installed, and
> clients
> use windows with the latest bde driver installed.

'bde driver'?

Presumably you are only using Dialect 1, as BDE does not
understand Dialect 3?

Also do the windows machines have the Firebird RC1 client?

Personally if I was stuck with having to use BDE at the
client end I would probably not be loading the latest server
software.

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