Re: creating text versions of .fmb files

Go to http://www.aug10.com They have very good products for searching the [Quoted] form modules. We use it very extensivley.

"Scott Mattes" <ScottMattes_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:gdJm8.13295$Zr3.2973504_at_news1.news.adelphia.net...
> So far the only way that I have found to convert .fmb to .fmt is worthless
> for doing what I want, because the PL/SQL code is translated to hex!
>
>
> "Jeff Greuel" <jgreuel_at_uoguelph.ca> wrote in message
> news:a7fics$j37$1_at_testinfo.cs.uoguelph.ca...
> > I've recently moved jobs from working with Developer 2000 with Forms
4.5
> > (Win 98 against Oracle 8i/UNIX 11.0) to Developer 6.0 (Win2000Pro
against
> > Orcale8i/Unix 11.0).
> >
> > Two questions.....
> >
> > 1) With 4.5 my .fmt files were ASCII files that were text-searchable
and
> as
> > such I could easily do 'diffs' from generation to generation (using MKS
> > Source Integrity or any number of diff utilities) to track changes.
> >
> > Is it in fact the case that .fmt files under Dev6.0 maintain the code of
> > triggers and program units in some non-ascii format (okay ascii but
> numeric
> > strings)?
> >
> > 2) Under 4.5 I also used the Forms Doc option to create .txt versions of
> > forms that were also handy for doing searches on, I know this has been
> > replaced with the Reports Doc option in Dev6.0 and for the most part it
> does
> > work, however I seem to get certain .fmbs that crash when the .txt file
> hits
> > the following sizes 16kb (16384 bytes), 32kb (32768 bytes), 500kb
(512000
> > bytes). Some files are created that exceed these sizes but it seems odd
> that
> > these are dying at milestone byte sizes.
> >
> > The .txt files are created they just end in mid-line.
> >
> > Anyone seen this before?
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Wed Mar 27 2002 - 02:21:58 CET