creating text versions of .fmb files

[Jeff Greuel]

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

[Scott Mattes]

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" <jgr...@uoguelph.ca> wrote in message
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[Hetal Patel]

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

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[Rajesh Jayaprakash]

"Hetal Patel" <hpa...@ftc.gov> wrote in message news:<M69o8.11$6W6.144@client>...

Oracle Project Builder (available as part of Forms 6i) has an option
to convert an FMB file to text format. I'm not sure whether this is
available in earlier version of Forms.

Regards,

Rajesh