----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Heymann" <lists@...>
Newsgroups: egroups.ib-support
To: <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Registry usage on Windows
>> If this is correct, then also
>
>> -- the client dll has no way of telling to which instance it belongs
>> and would always read the 'DefaultInstance' entry, making different
>> versions of the client library on the same machine use the same
>> (default) firebird.msg.
>
>> -- same applies to tools trying to locate the client dll - they always
>> load the default
>
> Yes. And that's also a big problem here (I have 3 Firebirds and IB6 on
> my development machine).
>
>> I hope I am wrong and someone tells me how.
>
> You're not wrong. Sorry. Managing several Server instances on one
> machine is tricky, managing several Clients on one machine is close to
> impossible. Calling instreg i has become second nature for me ...
Why do you need several clients on one machine ? Use most recent
for communacations with all server versions you need. This is not requirement
but suggestion. You may use any FB client to talk to any FB server. The only
exception is local protocol which was changed in FB 2.0