>
> However, I've managed to hit yet another snag. The firebird isql seems
> to be missing - I've tried every variant I could find on the net. At
> first isql brought up the unixodbc version, which I tried renaming to
> uoisql in case that helped. It didn't seem to.
>

Try FlameRobin www.flamerobin.org - a gui admin tool that should get you
started (see www.firebirdsql.org for others if you need more/specific
features).

Max