Raymond,

First, regarding your long list of questions, might I gently suggest
that you review the existing documentation for some of these items.
Additionally, if you go to the IBPhoenix web site, they have a new
search functions that allows for search in the old MERS Interbase list
as well as the IB-Support archives...

Now for your question:

> During installation what is required to create a Courier
> alias? I want to have my app
> reference the alias without knowledge of the physical
> location of the database.

Aliases are only supported by FB v1.5, which is currently in ALPHA
release. The aliases are defined at the server side, such that the
client would simply use the connection string "server:aliasname" and the
IB server ('server:') will then resolve the alias ('aliasname') using
the "FBAlias.conf" file.


Sean