> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Hulsey [mailto:chulsey@...]
> Sent: Miércoles 28 de Febrero de 2001 16:55
>
> I guess from your response you are able to make this work TIB_Event
> alerters. Patrick could you please provide me a configuration
> that you are
> using that works (IB version, gds32.dll, etc...). Also could I be doing
> something wrong here because all I do is the following:
>
> RegisterEvents(); // initialize event
> Create OnEventAlert() // trap for processing
> UnRegisterEvents(); // when finished

It seems that at day one (day one of IB, not the big bang) Jim designed the
events to use their own connection. At that time, TCP was not the only
protocol supported. Several issues you find in IB are for genericity
reasons, like the CHAR type transmitting the blanks over the wire. Later (at
Borland?) someone changed the event signaling mechanism to use OOB. If this
change was done, it may be the root of the problem: OOB is tricky even with
modern TCP stacks.
There's a bug logged against Firebird in this regard. It affects the
Borland distro, too. I don't remember the bug number, but under some
configurations, disaster will happen with events.

C.