Thank you! This has been driving me nuts all weekend long...

A little note, changing the status via a Linux issued gfix DID NOT get
Delphi to recognize the change. Setting it from windows did work for
both.

Kendall
--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Carlos H. Cantu"
<listas@w...> wrote:

> Yes, it can be done, but the database must be marked as readonly. You
> can do this with gfix and "-mode read_only".
>
> I suggest you to take a look in the new embedded server. Its awesome
> for this kind of tasks (CDROM catalogs, etc.)
>
> Carlos
> http://www.warmboot.com.br
> FireBase - http://www.FireBase.com.br
>
> k> I've searched and searched... I have a need to access a .fdb on a
> k> CDROM. I'm using Delphi6 via DBExpress, but I can't even get isql to
> k> connect to the database. Can it be done? If so, how?
>
> k> Thanks
> k> Kendall Sears