At 02:51 AM 2/02/2006, you wrote:

>Hi
>
>Busy with a long lasting project using FB embedded I have ran into some
>problems. The application built in Delphi using Firebird embedded 1.5
>does not seem to run on some Windows 98 systems. We have 4 test systems,
>two desktop PC's and two laptops. Both laptops fail.
>
>As soon as any attempt is made to connect to the database it breaks it
>again and a message is listed 'no active connections'.
>
>Has anybody else got this experience?

Have you checked whether the windows C and C++ runtimes are present
on the laptops? The files in question are msvcrt.dll and
msvcp60.dll. They need to be in the system directory.

./heLen