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upgrade to LabWindows/CVI 8.0; GPIB device configuration

We recently upgraded from LabWindows/CVI 6 to 8, and of course the entire GPIB software was upgraded at the same time. The old version used a "GPIB Configuration" utility to assign device names to a particular card and device address; the device name could then be fed to ipfind() to get a handle to that board/device. For instance "ESP300B" was assigned to "GPIB0" device address 9. The software called ipfind("ESP300B"); and got a handle to the GPIB0 board. Under the new MAX way of doing things, this doesn't work any more. I have to call ipfind("GPIB0"). Is there any way to assign an alias to GPIB0 so that the old software will still work with the old names?
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A-ha! Turns out that the "GPIB_Config" utility is still there, and still works (although you can't get to it from MAX), it's just that the alias database got erased when I installed the new upgrade. Renamed all of the GPIB devices and now it works fine. At least until I finish rewriting the software to the new standards.
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