Re: datafile no longer 1.8 compatible with r13734

2006-04-08 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Freitag, 7. April 2006 06:36 schrieb David Hampton: > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 22:59 +0200, Christian Stimming wrote: > > The latest 1.9.x releases *used* to write a data file that could still be > > read by 1.8.12. That was a very convenient way to get used to the new > > version but all the while

Re: datafile no longer 1.8 compatible with r13734

2006-04-07 Thread David Hampton
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 11:17 +0200, Christian Stimming wrote: > Does that mean 1.9.4 shipped with this problem? If yes, then for anyone > who needs to fix this manually: The workaround is to open the 1.9.4 > datafile with a text editor (potentially running "gunzip -c > compressedfile > cleartextfil

Re: datafile no longer 1.8 compatible with r13734

2006-04-07 Thread Christian Stimming
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Hampton schrieb: > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 22:59 +0200, Christian Stimming wrote: >> The latest 1.9.x releases *used* to write a data file that could still be >> read >> by 1.8.12. ... >> However, with one of the "commodity namespace" related cha

Re: datafile no longer 1.8 compatible with r13734

2006-04-06 Thread David Hampton
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 22:59 +0200, Christian Stimming wrote: > The latest 1.9.x releases *used* to write a data file that could still be > read > by 1.8.12. That was a very convenient way to get used to the new version but > all the while keep the 1.8.12 version around and working. My data file

Re: datafile no longer 1.8 compatible with r13734

2006-04-06 Thread David Hampton
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 22:59 +0200, Christian Stimming wrote: > The latest 1.9.x releases *used* to write a data file that could still be > read > by 1.8.12. That was a very convenient way to get used to the new version but > all the while keep the 1.8.12 version around and working. My data file

datafile no longer 1.8 compatible with r13734

2006-04-06 Thread Christian Stimming
The latest 1.9.x releases *used* to write a data file that could still be read by 1.8.12. That was a very convenient way to get used to the new version but all the while keep the 1.8.12 version around and working. My data file in question is quite simple -- no business features, no stocks, but n