dhay@... wrote:

> We're not using it for import/export - rather for creating databases
> through the command line.

Actually, fbexport -X is *not* for import/export, but statement execution.

> Perhaps some newer version can do it. If all else fails, you can use
> fbexport with -X option, it has nice error reporting:

However, fbexport -X does not support CREATE DATABASE command, so you
might want to first create an empty database with isql, and then use
fbexport to create objects in it.

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Milan Babuskov
http://fbexport.sourceforge.net