At 07:38 PM 9/03/2008, you wrote:

>--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:
>>
>> At 07:13 PM 9/03/2008, you wrote:
>>
>> >Looks like my Linux port is dead in the water until the Wine
>> >developers agree on a fix, and this bug has apparently been around for
>> >some years now without an agreed fix. :(
>>
>> Is there some reason you don't just use the native ODBC driver for
>Linux?
>>
>> ./hb
>>
>
>Unfortunately that is not an option as the language I'm using doesn't
>have any interface to the unix odbc drivers.

I didn't mean the unix odbc drivers. There is a Linux version of the Firebird ODBC driver.

>I wonder what other options there are with interfacing with Firebird ...

Tell us more about this weird language ;-) and particularly about the environment, that makes it totally dependent on having a Windows ODBC driver running in Wine.

./heLen