At 08:23 AM 14/02/2003 +0000, you wrote:

>Morning all, (Evening Helen!)
>
>it's not such a well known fact, but Windows will correctly connect to a
>database if you use the Unix path separator char (/) instead of (\). It
>works under IB_SQL too. Notepad etc all handle the 'wrong' path separators
>quite happily - try start | run then type 'notepad c:/temp/test.txt'
>(assuming you have that file !) and see how it 'just works'.
>
>It's a sort of well kept secret in Windows development.

I don't think it's a secret at all. It has been in all the IB manuals I
have ever owned. The trap people do fall into is that they don't notice
that the connection string syntax is still different, even you do use
f/slashes on Windows.

H