"Leyne, Sean" wrote:

>
> George,
>
> I would, personally, recommend that you simply leave IB running in the
> background and not try to stop and start it as required.
>
> Running the engine in the background will have an imperceptibly small
> impact on system/processor utilization.

I'd have to second that - on NT the memory footprint is just so small that it is
not worth the effort of worrying about. For *nix I would recommend using the
Classic architecture. The inet server will start and stop InterBase
automatically.

Needless to say, I would recommend the Firebird distribution for either
platform.

Paul
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Paul Reeves
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