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Patrick Moloney wrote:

> Thanks. There is a lot of good information on your IBConole site. Very
> helpful.
> But another question, now that we have IB multi-instance. IBConsole
> has long been packaged and installed with each version of InterBase.
> Now that a user may have 2 versions of IB installed on their
> computer, is it necessary to have a version of Ib installed with
> each. Does IBConsole have any dependencies with the Interbase
> install? Or, should IBConsole be separated from the Interbase
> installation and installed as a stand-alone application that can be
> used on multiple versions of InterBase? It appears that every user
> with 2 versions of Interbase installed also has 2 copies (probably 2
> versions) of IBConsole installed. Can we avoid this, and is IBConsole
> dependent on either of the Interbase installations (in case one is
> uninstalled)?

Patrick,

IBConsole is designed to handle multiple servers local or remote. It is
also downwards compatible. It even still can handle pre IB6.0 servers.
The only condition is that IBConsole has the latest gds32.dll.
My solution is placing IBConsole.exe with the helpfiles and the latest
gds32.dll in a seperate directory.
Official a connection to a lower version server with a higher version
client is not supported. But in practise it works well. I'm using this
technic now for about 10 years. There have been a problem with IB2007,
but this is resolved in SP2.

-- 
Gelein van de Voorde (IBConsole team)

"The blossoms on an apple tree are standardized,
and yet they are all different.
That is how we, too, should learn to build."

Alvar Alto