Hi,

> I teach a course on our faculty about programming tools for windows, in
> which I adopt Delphi (7) as the the official language and Firebird 1.5
> as RDBMS.
> As part of the requirements of the course, they must develop a system,
> simple but complete, including proposition, design, etc., from A to Z.
> The firebird server is installed on a remote machine to which the
> students have no access, neither phisically nor through the network,
> they only know the path to the directory where they created and maintain
> their individual databases.

Btw, and as you are using 1.5, you might consider using
server-side aliases instead of letting them the full
path know.

Best Regards,
Thomas Steinmaurer
LogManager Series - Logging/Auditing Suites supporting
InterBase, Firebird, Advantage Database and MS SQL Server
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