At 09:06 AM 8/12/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>Helen Borrie wrote:
>
> > Method 2) Install a copy of fbclient.dll, renamed as gds32.dll, in the
> same
> > directory as the application's executable. It's a solution that can work,
> > but test it well.
>
>That has a problem if another application has already opened gds32.dll
>from somewhere else? If it's already loaded windows does not look for
>it, and I THINK Robert is saying the customers may be using other
>Interbase applications - which is probably going to cause problems?

I thought the same thing but I'm not so sure. Today I've been swapping
between using IB_SQL with full server (fbclient.dll in system32 renamed as
gds32.dll) and embedded (fbembed.dll in the application directory, also
renamed to gds32.dll). I was deliberately see-sawing from one to other and
stopping the full server en route. There were no surprises, even with
repeated reconnections.

Helen