Re: Developer/2000 Portability

From: Kevin Mallory <kmallory_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: 1995/08/01
Message-ID: <3vlhf4$ell_at_inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com>#1/1


mlanda_at_vnet.ibm.com wrote:

>Well... I tried using an .fmb file generated by 4.5.6(dev/2000) with an older
>4.5 version 4.5.x(cde2) and could not even call it up; nothing but GPFs. I also
>created an .fmt (text) file using 4.5.6 and I could not use that in the older version
>of 4.5 forms either.

The only direction that FMB files are compatible is backward. We work very hard to make sure that version x.y.z+1 will be able to read x.y.z version (and x.y.z-1,-2,...) .FMB files.

The format of the FMT file follows this paradigm as well.   


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