Specifies an alternate external name to be used when referring to external subprograms. Its form is: ALIAS:external-name external-name Is a character constant delimited by apostrophes or quotation marks. The character constant is used as is; the string is not changed to uppercase, nor are blanks removed. The ALIAS property overrides the C (and STDCALL) property. If both C and ALIAS are specified for a subprogram, the subprogram is given the C calling convention, but not the C naming convention. It instead receives the name given for ALIAS, with no modifications. ALIAS cannot be used with internal procedures, and it cannot be applied to dummy arguments. cDEC$ ATTRIBUTES ALIAS has the same effect as the cDEC$ ALIAS directive.