Daniel Rail wrote:

>Hello Jim,
>
>Tuesday, September 28, 2004, 2:11:38 PM, you wrote:
>
>
>
>>Vulcan has abandoned the alias mechanism in favor of a more powerful
>>database configuration mechanism. Database configurations can be
>>wildcarded with reasonably intelligent filename rewriting as well as
>>per-database configuration parameters. Configuration files are designed
>>to cascade, so an individual configuration file could cascade to a
>>project file cascading to a site file cascading to the distribution
>>configuration file.
>>
>>
>
>So, how would a typical TCP/IP connection string would look like?
>Right now with aliases, it looks like: <server_name>:<alias_name>
>
>

<database remote-db>
filename node:database.fdb
provider remote
</database>

The "provider" line really isn't necessary since the client distribution
configuration file (client.conf) contains

<database *:*>
filename $0
provider remote
</database>

Leaving the provide off a database declaration causes in another lookup
with the rewritten string. [And yes, client.conf has database
declarations to match explicit Window path names.]

>As long as the files can be easily changed without a GUI app.
>
>
>

Any old text editor would so. Even TECO.


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