At 09:16 AM 15/02/2010, you wrote:

>? I thought XNET was linux/classic either/both.

No. Perhaps you are thinking of the [x]inet.d daemon that listens for connection requests on Classic.

>But I've never seen XNET on Windows

XNET is Windows-only. It's the subsystem by which the IPCServer protocol ("Windows local") is implemented from Fb 2.0 onwards.

See http://www.firebirdsql.org/rlsnotesh/rlsnotes20.html#new-win-protocol-xnet

>nor do I know how to make a connection string specify XNET.
>server/port:pathoralias
>is all I know for TCP. How do you make the above use XNET?

As ever, for a Windows local connection: physical file path or alias.

./heLen