At 11/11/2003 07:53 AM (Tuesday), Martijn Tonies wrote:

>I accidently entered "a" as my datafile for a remote server. Upon connect,
>the Firebird service tries accessing the floppy drive and it displays a
>dialog
>saying "Drive not ready ignore/cancel/try again"... My client process didn't
>respond and it got me puzzled for a while until I VNC-ed to the server :-)
>
>Isn't this really strange behaviour?

Yes, and incorrect behavior, as well.

"a" alone should refer to a file named "A" in the "current directory" of
the "current" drive (whatever those are). It should NOT refer to anything
on the A: drive.