Solution to MI Mapbasic ver 4.1 code and Mapinfo 4.5

[Joe Bolian]

Bill & Jack,

Stopwatch Maps has a Free program to fix the MapBasic version problems you've been discussing. 

The program MBXVER.EXE is a DOS program that examines the MapInfo facilities called on in a MapBasic executable program, determines the earliest MapInfo version that supports all those facilities, reports this and � if you tell it to � sets that version number into the MBX program.

For more details go to:  http://www.stopwatchmaps.com/products/data/mbxver.htm 

Best regards,

Joe Bolian
Stopwatch Maps
(800) 348-6277

At 02:07 PM 4/3/99 -0700, you wrote:
>As long as the app isn't using any 4.5 functions, you can edit
>the very top of the mbx file and change the 451 to 410. This
>works with tables too. You must use an editor that won't mess up
>the binary stuff just below the top three lines (so use something
>like debug.exe or better).
>
>This is about as risky as tearing off mattress labels or touching
>things with signs on them that say "Wet Paint" or throwing out
>unopened first notices for payment, but what the heck... you only
>live once. But do anything wrong or make any bad assumptions
>about what your editor does to a file, and as soon as you run it,
>your app will expire grotesquely like the guy in the last Indiana
>Jones movie who "chose poorly" when he drank from the wrong
>cup...
>
>The safest choice for those who wish to tread the path of the
>righteous is, of course, to upgrade. ;-)
>
>- Bill Thoen
>
>Jack Wierzchowski wrote:
>
>> Hi List,
>> Is there any way to trick Mapinfo 4.5 to run Mapbasic programs
>> compiled in
>> Mapbasic ver 4.1?
>> Thanks
>> Jack
>>
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