>Please be fair. Darin's was unable to get the dll via the link. I

That DLL has nothing to do with my answer.

>tried to search the Firebird distribution, both the server and
>embedded downloads and not find any.
>
>The Interbase 6 Language reference manual did not have any reference
>on the ABS() function.

Sure it does.

DECLARE EXTERNAL FUNCTION ABS
DOUBLE PRECISION
RETURNS DOUBLE PRECISION BY VALUE
ENTRY_POINT 'IB_UDF_abs' MODULE_NAME 'ib_udf';


But IB_UDF, I believe, has been renamed to FB_UDF I believe.

A .sql file that declares all standard functions for you, should be included
with the Firebird distribution.

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