At 05:39 AM 19/11/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
>wrote:
> > At 03:47 AM 19/11/2004 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > >When I run GBAK I'm getting an error: "unavailable database" I've
> > >double checked the syntax and all seems to be in order. What could be
> > >causing this?
> >
> > Could you report the exact command string you are using?
> >
> > ./hb
>
>Yes:
>
>gbak ­b e:\Data\inventory.fdb e:\Backups\inventory.fbk ­user SYSDBA
>­password masterkey

Might be nothing, might be something, but the above string came through to
me with a "soft" hyphen in place of ascii(45) on all of the switches. Do
you happen to be running the command from a batchfile that you created with
Word or some other word processor?

./hb