Thanks for the reply...

We already do this kind of thing.. The problem actually seems to
reside with windows itself, in that it's not telling our applications
to close at all - or at least, not before trying to stop the FB server
Service. Like I said though, it simply doesn't happen all the time,
and you don't seem to be able to reliably repeat it.

The only real reason I'm asking here (and not yelling at Microsoft,
for instance), is that Interbase 6 OpenSource never had this problem -
and we've only recently upgraded these to Firebird (although we've
been using Firebird elsewhere for a while now).

It's not a massive issue, but it unfortunately just reflects a little
badly on us when it happens to a terminal being used by a customer (of
course, they just see 'the terminal', they don't see the difference
between a Windows-esque problem and the software we write, or even the
hardware itself). Obviously you can't completely rule out stuff like
this (not with microsoft anyhoo.. ;-), but it's nice to minimise it.

Giles Wakefield