>Guessing that you installed the Fb service with a non-default service >name - "FirebirdServerfirebird3" - because you have another version of >Firebird running on the same host machine and you want to call instsvc >from your application to check the status of the Fb3 server process...
Yes I had an old version (FB2) that I uninstalled before maybe not completly. >I don't know whether this answers your question, though. Yours answers it's enough for me thank you very much Helen