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From: paolo
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:04

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Hello everybody. I am trying to connect to a database created in access that has a .dat extension. every time I try to connect to it I get an error message saying "unrecognised format". what can i do ?
I will write down step by step what i do to create the alias and then connect to it, so if anyone has any idea, it is surely welcome.
click database, then explore. create new msaccess, put the path of the database and the alias name "aa". then on the form i select the name of the database from the alias list , and when i  try to set active property to true i get an error message. I also tried to create the alias as a microsoft access driver but the error message that i get is "invalid configuration parameter alias aa".
any ideas ???
thanks for your time
Paolo

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