> sorry, but now I'm a bit lost :-) What is the code that works, mine
> or yours with the above two lines?

Salvatore,

your code works OK (mine in just there tp prove the point that Chau
Chee Yang made). The problem that the console output from GBAK doesn't
get completely shown immediately seems to be a GBAK problem. It seems
we cannot do anything but ask the Firebird developers to flush their
buffers.

@Chau Chee Yang: The correct way to do that would be to post it to
the firebird-devel list or to the Firebird Tracker. Do you do that?

Best Regards

Stefan Heymann