Hi-
If it is close to being deprecated then I won't spend another minute on it. I didn't know that. I have IBPP up and running so I willl stick with that then for now. No more GPRE. GNU cobol has other options. Have a cool hump day (wed.) thx. for the answer, jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel