At 05:41 PM 5/08/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>[I am in the middle of a new release with IBO and am getting a few
>exceptions that I have not seen before]
>
>A Win958SE machine is getting the following exception trying to login
>to a database:
>
>ISC ERROR CODE:335544373ISC ERROR MESSAGE:operating system directive
>CreateFile failed

This came from the server as the result it asking to create an operating
system file (probably the firebird.log). Either there is no spare disk
space, or the server can't find the Firebird root directory.

Or (just a wild stab) you're using ib_sql and you clicked the Create
Database button (blue checkmark) instead of the Connect Database button
(blue "+" sign).

You don't say where the database is.

>The operation completed successfully..

This came from the application. With the info given, it would be impossible
to work out what operation completely successfully.

>So it failed but completed succesfully? Huh?

Provide some info about the connection you're trying to do (location and OS
of server, Server, Path, Protocol properties of the client connection,
Firebird server version, Firebird client version)

>it loaded the following versions of MSVC... dlls:
>
>MSVCRT20.DLL 2.11.0.0
>MSVCRT.DLL 6.0.8797.0
>
>What should I be looking at?

Tell us what you're doing and what tool you're using.

>(I saw the comment on Disk shadow in the
>archives--but that isnt' a Win98 tool AFAIK--anything else?)

No, disk shadowing isn't an issue on Win98. Need more details about both
the haystack and the needle.

/heLen