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> At this point, I can try connecting to a database, but it doesn't seem
> to get past the first handshaking with Postgres on the wire. I'm
> guessing that the protocol may have changed for v6.4 and those changes
> are not in the driver I'm using? The protocol has settled down for the
> next release, so perhaps we could incorporate the changes into my test
> code.

I should mention that if I specify a non-existant database (OK, yeah, I
forgot to create one :) then the handshaking for that failure mode seems
to work well. I get a good error message back at ApplixWare...

                     - Tom