--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Helen Borrie <helebor@t...>
wrote:

> At 07:00 AM 19/11/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>
> > > >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
> >
> >Someone else is actually running it. I believe that they're running it
> >from a command prompt, but it isn't out of the question that they
> >might be using a batch file.
> >
> >Shouldn't there be a hyphen before the switches?
>
> Yes - it should be ascii(45), not some "en-dash" character from

Windows or

> the Adobe text tool...hence my pondering whether this command had been
> constructed in a word processor using some copy/paste from a list or

from

> PDF documentation....
>
> I can't identify the character that you showed as a hyphen in your

command

> string, but it's not ascii(45). It could be unicode 2010. As I said,
> might be something, might be nothing.
>
> Have you tried running the backup just typing the command directly

at the

> command line? (as a reality check....)
>
> ./hb

I'll double check with the person who ran it, but I believe she's
running from a command line