My apology! I thought the postings indicate a dll by the name of
"rfunc.dll". Then I was checking the udf directory, searched the
ib_udf.sql for abs and scout's honour, I did not find it this morning
but magically find it now. Must be before any my caffine fixation
kicked in.

Sorry about that.

Jeff
--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Martijn Tonies"
<m.tonies@...> wrote:

>
> >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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