At 11:48 AM 9/1/2005 -0500, you wrote: >>Well, I guess I'm closer. >>IT installed Filemaker Pro... v.5! >No surprise there. The change of file format with each new version release >has been a problem since release 2.0 of the first program ever written. In >order to not obsolete the installed base with each version release some >vague attempt at backward compatibility is usually maintained. If an owner >of v7 can load the file and export in v5 format, you might by luck >actually be able to pull it into your v5. If so, it will possibly load by >v6 too. If the v7 version file didn't use the bells and whistles that >didn't exist in v5, it has a chance. > >It's worth a try. > >Ron N Nope... v.5 makes alphabet soup of the v.7 file. >Well, at least it's free. :-) >Avery gets whut ya pays fer, rite?? ;-} --------- I just sent IT the following, referring to the v.5 they just installed: >Thanks for installing it. Unfortunately, the files I wished to assess are >in v.7. > >Do we have that on campus or is Filemaker an orphan on campus? We'll see. The thot plickens... Conrad Hoffsommer I tried to get a life once but they were all out of stock.
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