On 5 Mar 2002 at 18:20, mmenaz wrote:

> Hi, since the M$ WinXP seems to be a real problem for *.GDB files
> extension (the pro version tryes to "repair" *.GDB files that have
> been modified), and since M$ will not change that behaviour to please
> us, what could be the "official"/standard file extension for Firebird
> databases? Someone suggested *.FDB, and I'm using it, but wanna know
> if there is something already widely adopted. Thanks Marco Menardi
>

I use .GDB, as my server is Linux based, and doesn't have to abide by M$
ecentricies. I think a better extension is FBDB, since longer extensions are
perfectly legal on most current systems, and gets around the fact that there are
only so many 3 letter extensions, available (17,576 I think). The problem is
isc4.gdb, which I think should be defined in the config file (the file name including
the extension should be there so that we can come up with a better name then
isc4.gdb).

Paul



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