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>Perhaps, while we're on the subject, another reader would care to confirm
>or demolish my impression that if one user accesses a file on the server
>from the server, which file is also accessed by other users from client
>machines, then he must prefix the filename with localhost: otherwise
>corruption can occur.

I was under the impression that the source of that corruption, the
"connection string bug" had been fixed in one of the later Firebird releases.

If this is NOT so, I would really like to hear about it.