On 2019-08-05 15:58, 'Zoran' zoran565@... [firebird-support]
wrote:

> What Dimitry said, or you can try this:
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> function _GetAliasDBFName(alias): string;
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> var
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> sl: TStringList;
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> begin
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> result := '';
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> sl := TStringList.Create;
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> try
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> sl.LoadFromFile('C:\Program
> Files\Firebird\Firebird_3_0\databases.conf');
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> result := sl.Values[alias];
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> finally
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> sl.Free;
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> end;
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> end;
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> Simply call _ GetAliasDBFName and pass your alias name as a param.
> Problem might arise if FB team chooses to change name of database.conf
> file, or re-allocate it.

That doesn't work remote, nor will it work if the user running this
doesn't have read access to databases.conf.

Mark