Helen Borrie wrote:

> For isql you must either provide an absolute path:
>
> /opt/firebird/bin/isql
>
> or run isql directly from the bin directory:
>
> bin]./isql
>
> Otherwise you are like to get some other isql belonging to another database
> package.
>
> On linux, the isql interface looks exactly the same as the Windows one. If
> it doesn't, you know you have the wrong one.

Just a tip (it may be useful to someone). When I install Firebird on
Linux, the first thing I do is:

ln -s /opt/firebird/bin/isql /usr/local/bin/fbsql

That way I get "fbsql" command, so I'm always sure what I'm doing.

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