looking at the jaybird or .net driver source might be your best bet. These
both talk to the server w/o client libriaries. I don't know if the .net
stuff requires windows to run, but I think it follows the jaybird
architecture, which has a layer that basically implements the methods in
the client. In jaybird this is the GDS interface. I expect this would
provide solutions for java and C++ clients.

david jencks

On 2003.01.02 13:03:40 -0500 Graham <yahoo@...> wrote:
> I posted this yesterday to the news.atkin.com server ... but it
> didn't make it.
>
> "Helen Borrie" <helebor@...> wrote in message
> news:5.1.0.14.2.20030102115613.07509e48@......
> > At 11:24 PM 31/12/2002 +0000, you wrote:
> > >Is there any documentation on the tcp protocols used comparable to
> > >that available for postgreSQL ?
> >
> > Probably most people here don't have the postgreSQL
> documentation. What
> is
> > it that you need, that isn't documented in the OpGuide?
> >
>
> I'm looking for documentation similar to this:
> http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/protocol.html
> that explains the interbase tcp protocol
>
> >
> > >I note that Ethereal supports the IB tcp protocol ...
> >
> > Does that mean Ethereal knows that the IB service listens on port
> 3050 by
> > default (port 3060 for InterServer...) ? Or are you looking for
> something
> > like low-level packet identification?
>
> For instance, ethereal calls 00000044 opcode (68), a "prepare
> statement", which is then followed by, in an example case, 60 bytes
> which includes the ascii "select * from customer"
>
> Other examples include: 0000003e = "allocate statement (opcode 62)"
> followed by 4 data bytes, 00000028="request info database (opcode
> 40)" followed by data of 20 bytes.
>
> Basically, what I want is enough information to write a very simple
> client that communicates directly to an interbase server on 3050, to
> make simple queries. This would be for a platform that I don't have
> interbase client libraries.
>
> --Graham
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