Fred,

With IB 6.0, Borland moved the install path and registry keys to
"Borland" from "Interbase Corp"...


Sean

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wilson, Fred [mailto:fred.wilson@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 1:00 PM
> To: 'ib-support@yahoogroups.com'
> Subject: RE: [ib-support] Interesting, FB and Borland
>
>
> Doug, thanks for the explaination. Yup, been really, really
> busy lately.
> Anyway, one thing still doesn't compute. Interbase, at least
> 5.6 (which is
> what we've been running) doesn't place the Interbase.msg file under:
>
> C:\Program Files\Borland\Interbase
>
> but instead puts under:
>
> C:\Program Files\Interbase Corp\Interbase
>
> so even with the "old" registry settings, things are still
> wacked.. Anyway,
> it's not a problem to fix. It's just strange, I thought.
>
> Best,
> Fred Wilson
> SE. Bell & Howell
> fred.wilson@...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Chamberlin [mailto:DChamberlin@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 9:46 AM
> To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [ib-support] Interesting, FB and Borland
>
>
> At 06/11/2002 12:34 PM (Tuesday), Wilson, Fred wrote:
> >There's a lot of noise here about FB is not IB, etc.,
> etc.,.. I just found
> >this a little odd, and my boss asked me why our install
> should create a
> >c:\Program Files\Borland\Interbase directory.
>
> The Firebird 1.0 release was intended to preserve a high level of
> compatibility with Interbase. This was done, among other
> reasons, to make
> it easier to replace Interbase with Firebird.
>
> Since at the moment Firebird and Interbase cannot easily run
> simultaneously
> on the same server, one key decision was whether the same
> registry keys
> should be used. Doing so makes it easier for existing
> installations to be
> recognized when a new install was done.
>
> In future major releases of Firebird I would expect
> all-Firebird registry
> settings to prevail. I hope concurrent installation and
> operation alongside
> Interbase will also be possible.
>
> Fred, since you frequent this list, I'm surprised you did not
> catch this.
> Too busy doing real work? ;)
>
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