> Can anyone help.
> Is it possible for me to have a IB6/FB1 local database but access
> this with a IB5.x client on the SAME PC? Its a long story. My DB has
> reserved words as field names and our clients connect to this IB6
> server using IB5 clients, thereby ignoring this problem.
> Thank you.
>

I would always keep client libraries in sync with the server in question.
You may find no problems but then you may get corruptions/errors/exceptions
depending on what you are trying to do.
BTW what do you mean by "local"
Alan