> > But somehow this has changed the standard behaviour for applications!
>
> Of course, as fbclient also reads firebird.conf. If you don't want it
> to, you just need to drop the Firebird registry entry. This way,
> fbclient won't find the .conf file and will use the default values.

I have ran into this annoying behaviour myself.

So, if someone else installs a second instance of Firebird on your (client)
machine, fbclient.dll starts reading the registry and connects to the
different
instance instead of what you used to connect to?

Sounds like a mistake to me.

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL, NexusDB, Oracle &
MS SQL Server
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com
My thoughts:
http://blog.upscene.com/martijn/
Database development questions? Check the forum!
http://www.databasedevelopmentforum.com