"westley52" <westley52@...> wrote:

>
> I agree with you that that is what should be happening. I loaded
> firebird in "c:\programs\firebird". The bin directory is under this -
> "c:\programs\firebird\bin". ( Basically, the structure is unmodified
> after the unzip. ). Problem is that when I remove the registry entry,
> aliases.conf and firebird.msg are not being found - even though they
> are in the directory "c:\programs\firebird" - one above the bin directory.

1) What's the exact Windows version (including service pack and
localization)?

2) Could you please check what the Win32 API function GetModuleFileName()
returns on that machine? Something like: GetModuleFileName(NULL, buffer,
sizeof(buffer)) in any program. We had reports about related failures on
some win32 installations, but I never could confirm that.


Dmitry