Thanks for confirming what I suspected. I am glad I started looking
into FIBPlus for my Delphi apps. It is indeed time to think of
Firebird on its own. The entire team deserves a big applause for all
their efforts.

- Lou


--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
wrote:

> At 01:41 AM 29/02/2004 +0000, you wrote:
> >Hello.
> >
> >What is the oldest version of the IB/FB client (GDS32.dll) that can
> >be used safely with FB 1.5.
>
> You have to use the correct client for the version of fb 1.5. Gone

are the

> days when you can pretend Firebird is InterBase. This is a

different dbms

> with different rules now - more so on Windows than on Linux, too....
>
>
> >I have perused the release notes and will do so again after I have
> >printed them out.
>
> Peruse also the README_library_install.txt in Firebird's /doc

folder - it

> explains how to run instclient.exe to custom-install fbclient.dll

as

> "gds32.dll" into your system directory.
>
> Helen