At 09:05 PM 8/01/2005 +1100, you wrote:

> > >
> > >surely it's just a matter of checking your connection
> > properties? protocol
> > >cpLocal?
> >
> > The question seemed to be the other way around: Ed appears to
> > want to know
> > whether the application can "tell" whether the client is plain ol'
> > fbclient.dll or is fbembed.dll and presumably set its connection props
> > accordingly.
>
>huh? it would have to connect first in order to load whatever library is
>available to it.

No, it loads the client library before it ever connects to a database.

>If it connects cpLocal then it's not fbclient.dll??

Fbclient.dll can make an IPServer connection.

Helen