FileMaker Pro and FileMaker II formats-- confusion

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From: Dreaming
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 23:03

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A co-worker of mine received a disk with a membership database in
FileMaker Pro format on it.  I have an old copy of FileMaker II which
I never use, but I figured I might be able to translate her file with
it.  Each trick I attempted (changing the type/creator to match
FMII's; Recovering the data with FMII; using the Import option) ran
into the same stonewall: "This file was created using the Pro 1.0
version of FileMaker."  (Which is interesting, since clearly FMPro
came out after FMII -- I wonder what method the latter is using to
determine the db's version-- it's not type/creator).

FMII can definitely READ the db information, since it successfully
"recovered" all the information in the Pro file.  Success, I thought.
Not so fast: when I tried to read in my newly-recovered info, it gave
me the same version number message.  The data itself must contain the
version number somewhere.

Does anyone know of a program which can read in FM Pro database info?
Or a method by which I can force FMII to do so?  It's not critical but
I'd like to know.  (Replies of "How about buying the program?" will
only be answered by requests for money :-).

-- 
ddl683@csc.albany.edu
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