> Figured it out..
> For anyone who wants to know....
> If you have FB1.5RC1 installed on the same box as an IB server
> and you want
> to use e.g. IBexpert to run equally to both an FB server and an IB
> server....
> place fbclient.dll (the full client - not the old stub) in the IBExpert
> directory and rename it to GDS32.dll. IBexpert and I imagine
> other tools to
> at this stage will always only wnat to work with gds32.dll and it will use
> this file instead of the old one possibly in system32, but more
> importantly,
> this new client dll now understands port numbers in the connection string.
> So the connection string will be:
> servername/portno:drive:\path\filename.ext
>
> if you leave the /portno out, it will default to 3050 and find
> the IB server
> on the servername box. if you configure FB to run on another port
> e.g. 3051,
> then the connection string used with /3051 will connect to the FB
> service on
> the same box voila!
>
> Alan

Does anyone know... if I rename fbclient.dll to gds32.dll and use it for
applications which connect to IB servers as well as to FB servers... will
this cause me any prblems with connections to the IB servers?
At least for know... are they talking the same instructions ?
Alan