RE: [Firebird-devel] ibeng32.dll

[Claudio V. C. <cv...@us...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dmitri Zakharov [mailto:dz...@mi...]
> Sent: Domingo 9 de Diciembre de 2001 23:19
>
> This "engine in dll" was an official Borland binary in IB 4.0 for NT.
> By the way, it was alone engine at all. Remote access was provied by
> another wrapper program (ibremote.exe), which also called gds32.dll,
> and worked as a service.

I used IB4.0. But I remember that it was a 16-BIT RELEASE, so gds32 didn't
exist. I just rescued the CD from the dust and these are the DLLs:
RUNIMAGE\IBLOCAL\BIN\DSQL.DLL
RUNIMAGE\IBLOCAL\BIN\FILEIO.DLL
RUNIMAGE\IBLOCAL\BIN\GBAK.DLL
RUNIMAGE\IBLOCAL\BIN\GDS.DLL
RUNIMAGE\IBLOCAL\BIN\INTL.DLL
RUNIMAGE\IBLOCAL\BIN\IUTLS.DLL
RUNIMAGE\IBLOCAL\BIN\JRD.DLL
RUNIMAGE\IBLOCAL\BIN\REMOTE.DLL
RUNIMAGE\IBLOCAL\BIN\STACK.DLL

At that time, InstallShield was Stirling Technologies, Inc. or they
purchased that company, don't remember.
;-)

That's a 16-bit artifact that was abandoned around 1995, since Delphi 2 came
with IB_4.1 that was already 32-bit:
http://www.cvalde.com/IbRoadmap.htm

The alternative is that you're speaking about IB4.00 WorkGroup Server for NT
3.50, a scarce release for the museum. :-) Was it really for 32 bits? In the
meantime, I noticed that several links from my URL show above are now
invalid: Borland deleted or hid any press release before 1998 in the
previous months and the IK subsidiary did the same. Previously, you could
find some old press releases only in Borland UK.

Or maybe you are speaking about ib4.1? It has effectively an ibremote.exe
program, gds32.dll, ibres.dll and was the first 32 bit but the last classic
release on Windows, designed for NT 3.51 and tested with NT 4 beta. I can't
find a reference to ibeng or ibeng32 in it.

Anyway, my point is that your pet ibeng32.DLL was deprecated before 1997
(since IB4.2 appeared circa August 1996) and probably even before 1996, so
you'll have to review the #define's and the like to be sure it's current.

C. (aka the IB paleontologist)
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Claudio Valderrama C.
Ingeniero en Informática - Consultor independiente
http://www.cvalde.com - http://www.firebirdSQL.org