Re: res file Forms30 -> Forms6i character based

Can you do this? I think the answer may be no. My recollection was that you had to be on 5.0 or earlier to convert 3.0...but I may be wrong. It has been a while since I did this.

Chet

"koert54" <nospam_at_nospam.com> wrote in message news:3bf9398e$0$7108$4d4efb8e_at_news.be.uu.net...
> And I thought I had seen the last of this crap...
> I have a resource file (*.res) for a RF terminal for a Forms 3.0 character
> based application.
> I've done migrations of res files from 3.0 to Forms 4.5 before.
> This meant hacking away with resprint/resparse/otgen and oraterm.
> What I do is :
> - resprint the res file to become a prn file
> - hack through 3000 lines of escape codes
> - resparse the prn file into a res file
> - generate using otgen or oraterm
>
> Has anyone done this procedure to go from a Forms30 res file to a Forms6i
> res
> file with character based runforms ???
> Does anyone know where to get some decent documentation about this instead
> of hacking away and trial and error ???
>
> Kind Regards,
> Kurt
>
>
Received on Tue Nov 20 2001 - 20:43:37 CST