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Oracle form version

2005-04-20, 8:23 pm

How can I tell the Oracle forms version of an .fmb file?
4.5, 5.0, 6.0, 6i or 9i ?

Hilary Band

2005-04-21, 3:23 am

jhavero@gmail.com (JR) wrote in message news:<123a5c0.0504201046.15446a0e@posting.google.com>...
> How can I tell the Oracle forms version of an .fmb file?
> 4.5, 5.0, 6.0, 6i or 9i ?

Can't think of any way of telling from the .fmb file, other than to
try opening it in various versions of the Forms Builder tool. If you
try to open it in a version of Forms Builder that's earlier than the
one the form was built in you will get an error message. The error
message will vary with different versions of the tool but will be
something like 'unable to open file' or 'unknown format'. Start with
the earliest version of Forms Builder and work forwards, as Forms
Builder is backwards compatible and will be happy to open .fmb files
created with earlier versions of the tool.

Scott Mattes

2005-04-21, 11:23 am

JR wrote:
> How can I tell the Oracle forms version of an .fmb file?
> 4.5, 5.0, 6.0, 6i or 9i ?

If you edit the forms with a good file editor, do the first characters
have different values? Mine say "ROS.60050", and I am using Forms 6i,
but that is all I am using so I can't check older versions.

DA Morgan

2005-04-22, 8:23 pm

Scott Mattes wrote:
> JR wrote:
>
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> If you edit the forms with a good file editor, do the first characters
> have different values? Mine say "ROS.60050", and I am using Forms 6i,
> but that is all I am using so I can't check older versions.

Perhaps it can be deocoded but an older forms of mine, version unknown
but certainly later than 4.0 have:

ROS.2010205
ROS.2020202
ROS.2030600
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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan@x.washington.edu
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