Brad,

B> Its then a blank file though and its not good of Firebird to
B> require it to be there when a blank one will do and its also not good to
B> kill the process instead of returning an error message if the file isn't
B> there.

agreed, and agreed. You might want to file a bug report for it.
In case you find the RootDirectory entry is actually required, which I
doubt, you might want to consider it a bug anyway; personally I fail
to grasp the usefulness of a file that contains a string telling where
the file itself is located. ;-)

Ciao
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