Hi Marco and others,

>> Because the API calls require al kinds of tedious and error-prone
>> low-level stuff like setting up service param blocks and the like,
>> I recently wrote three easy to use front-end functions IB_Backup,
>> IB_Restore and IB_VerifyUser to take care of this.

I just placed them at http://vinkenoog.nl/interbase/

Anyone interested can freely download, use and/or alter the code.

> I think that it would be great for IBO, but I would like to have
> Jason tell something about it. If you donate these components to
> IBO, if I remember correctly, you gain a "lifetime" access to IBO
> source, if you aready don't have one.

Well, it's not _that_ much code. But there may be more later. I would
be glad to develop these and other functions further to be
incorporated in (or used alongside) IBO. I usually program in C++ but
I like Pascal a lot too.

But at the moment I don't have time to transcode it, so I just placed
the C++ version. If nobody else makes a Delphi version I'll do it
myself within the next couple of weeks, if I find the time.


Greetings,
Paul Vinkenoog