On 5/2/05, jrodenhi <jack@...> wrote:
> Thanks for the fast and enthusiastic response. I guess I had to make
> this tough though. Since my application is designed using the server
> version and this is to be a demo of the full version that just happens
> to come in a pretty convenient package, I need to use the server
> version. I recognize that I will not be running the Firebird server
> as a Windows service, but I think that will be fine, considering the
> short term nature of the demo.

Short term or long term no problem at all, I've had customers that on
todays date have be runnning embedded fb on a thumbdrive for more than
a year without a single problem in a POS system, I guess that there
are plenty with people on this list that have it running for more than
that.

>
> I don't think Firebird requires access to the Windows registry since
> it is not an ActiveX control and gets its configuration information
> from an ini file.

Correct.

>
> Am I wrong in expecting to be able to install the server as an
> application on my thumb drive?

Just deploy your application with all the nessecary dependencies and
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/firebird/Firebird-1.5.2.4731_embed_win32.zip?download
that zip file contains everything you will need for running FB embedded.

> Again, thank you very much for your help.
>
> -Jack


Regards Stefan