Re: desperately looking for Oracle Forms 3.0

Henk Hultink wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Fyi: we had to make an update from Forms 3.0 to 4.5, and decided to begin
> from scratch (only using the old forms and some Oracle Case Repository
> stuff - the 3.0 forms were INP files, which are ASCII and can even be read
> and fairly well understood in an ASCII-Editor).
> Because you can never hope to use even the least part of GUI functionality
> when you convert 3.0 to ...?
> I'm not even sure if Forms 9i is able to load INP files, or that you have
> to take more steps, e.g. 3 --> 4.5 --> 6 --> 9i, but I for one wouldn't vote
> for that option.
>
> regards,
>
> Henk Hultink
>
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> H. Hultink
> Software Engineer
> Stoas, Division OBOI
> Wageningen, The Netherlands
> "Activating Knowledge"
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>
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>
>
> "claudine" <chorezky_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:bdd6c2be.0303102338.4a03160f_at_posting.google.com...
>

>>DA Morgan <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message

[Quoted] >>>Frank wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>DA Morgan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>claudine wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Hi folks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>We are looking for a copy of SQL*Forms 3.0. On the Oracle Partner
>>>>>>website, only Forms 6i and 9i seem to be available... Any clue where
>>>>>>we can get/buy this ancient stuff?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>thanx
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Claudine
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Perhaps a museum.
>>>>>
>>>>>If you are going to ask fo rthe impossible ... at least specify the
>>>>>operating system. BTW: Do you still have the operating system?
>>>>>
>>>>>Seems to me the time could be better spent doing whatever needs to
>>>>

>>>>>done with a product that isn't neolithic.
>>>>>
>>>>>Daniel Morgan
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Daniel, consider the OP has a migration job to execute - well
>>>>overdue, agreed, but well, errhm a business opportunity.
>>>>
>>>>claudine, you could also try to get hold of the RDBMS distribution;
>>>>iirc, the CLient-Only install holds forms 3.0 for most, if not
>>>>all 7.x distributions.
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Regards, Frank van Bortel
>>>
>>>I understand that. But there is no migration path except recoding from
>>>scratch.
>>>
>>>It would almost undoubtedly be faster to just gather current
>>

>>>and start all over again.
>>>
>>>Daniel Morgan
>>
>>As it is, we really have to do a migration job (Forms 3.0 to Forms
>>9i)! Daniel, do you really think, that this would be too troublesome
>>and that it would cost as much time as to start from scratch?? Do you
>>have any experience in forms migration?
>>claudine

Nope, forms 5 doesn't understand V3 INP files, let alone 9i

-- 
Regards, Frank van Bortel