On Saturday 09 February 2002 04:35 pm, Brad Pepers wrote:

> Well I just checked the manuals and can't seem to find the details on
> connection strings. If I remember right there is a way to specify the port
> to use for connecting to the server. Is there such a thing?
>
> For example I have the server running on port 9000 instead of 3050 so I
> would like to use something like "server:9000:/tmp/foo.fdb" to open the
> /tmp/foo.fdb database on a system called "server" using port 9000.

I found by using a goggle search that I can use server/port:path to include
the port. I tried it though and it doesn't allow a numeric port. It has to
be one from the services file which is a bit of a pain.

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Brad Pepers
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