| Subject | Re: [ib-support] Path to Firebird directory |
|---|---|
| Author | Doug Chamberlin |
| Post date | 2003-06-12T20:37:23Z |
At 6/12/2003 03:55 PM (Thursday), Don Gollahon wrote:
With FB 1.0 and earlier IB versions, when running the server under Windows,
I wrote a UDF which asked the OS for the path to the running application.
When that is returned to the client it can be used to determine the path to
\bin. I actually used it to determine the path to the security database so
i could open it and mess around in there.
>Is there an easy way to get the path to the Firebird bin directory from aThere may be a canonical way in FB 1.5 but I have not learned of it.
>Delphi app?
With FB 1.0 and earlier IB versions, when running the server under Windows,
I wrote a UDF which asked the OS for the path to the running application.
When that is returned to the client it can be used to determine the path to
\bin. I actually used it to determine the path to the security database so
i could open it and mess around in there.