Colons ":" will not work. It gets in the way of the "Y-valve" I think they call it.

So you can not do hacks such as:

c:\test.fdb=/var/db/firebird/temp.fdb

Jason

Geoff Worboys wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I was wondering...
>
> What are the limitations on definitions in aliases.conf?
>
> Presumably an alias cannot contain '=' or '#' characters. Does
> it take any special attention of quoted aliases names? What
> length is supported for an alias name? Similarly what length
> can be the file name associated with an alias?
>
> So far I have been very conservative about what I define in
> the aliases.conf file, but wondering if I am being too careful.
> Now I am trying to write a user interface (Windows) over the
> file and wondering exactly what limitations I should impose.
>