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

>
> At 12:42 AM 6/08/2010, you wrote:
> >Hi everyone, i hope someone can help me. i have installed assetmanager which uses the firebird server. My problem is i need to pull data from the assetmanager.adb i have downloaded firebird code factory. but they look for .fdb or .gdb files which is not the format the assetmanager is saved in. if anyone can help me i will appreciate it very much
>
> The suffix on a Firebird doesn't indicate a "format". The Firebird server is agnostic about suffixes. I don't know anything about "Firebird Code Factory" but you should be able to supply the file name of the database directly (or indeed a database alias) to any external utility if its selector doesn't offer you the "All files" option.
>
> ./heLen
>

also you can "copy as"/rename the file ^_^

kind regards,