2009/7/31 Dmitry Yemanov <dimitr@...>:

> Daniel Albuschat wrote:
>>
>> I have a few questions about the firebird.msg file. At the site of one
>> of our clients, Firebird 1.5.5 (after doing a plain install) doesn't
>> find that file. You can see in the error message (e.g. when an
>> incorrect statement is executed) that it tries to open the file as
>> \\server-name\firebird.msg, while this obviously does not exist.
>>
>> Does the client (this is not embedded) access the firebird.msg file at
>> all, or only the server?
>
> The client does access it.

I see. I always believed that the server used it to format the error
messages that are then sent to the client, so the client never
actually accessed it.

>> How does Firebird look for that msg-file and can I probably set it to
>> a fixed path in the configuration?
>
> HKLM / Software / Firebird Project / Firebird Server / Instances /
> DefaultInstance

So a minimal Firebird Client-Installation would consist of the following:

- gds32.dll/fbclient.dll
- A firebird.msg somewhere
- The mentioned registry key pointing to the firebird.msg-File.

Is that correct, or am I still missing something?

Thanks for the help so far,

Daniel Albuschat

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