> >>I should mention that I'm using the stand-alone ebase,
>>>not FileMaker. Is the stand-alone version pickier
>>>than FileMaker about which files it will use?
>>
>>Bingo! Although the document file format is the same, the ebase
>>runtime application is different on the two platforms. You should
>>download a Mac version of ebase from the web site, replace the
>>Windows application ebase.exe with the Mac runtime ebase.102. All the
>>other files you download are empty data files and you can discard
>>them.
>
>Er, yes, I know the runtime application is different; I have fully
>functional copies of the ebase runtime on both Mac and Windows.
Sorry, I made an unwarranted assumption.
>But when I
>take the .103 files that I customized under Windows (not the .EXE or .DLLs,
>which of course won't work on the Mac) and try to open the Mac runtime with
>those files instead of the .103 files that came with it, it says the files
>are not part of this solution.
>
>Are the two runtime programs similar enough that they can read each other's
>files, or is the full version of FileMaker Pro required on both platforms
>to make this work?
The file format is identical on the PC and Mac, so I would assume
that the runtime could handle either. Your problem might teach us
different, though. I don't have a Windows machine available to test
this. I'd love to hear from someone who works with both platforms.
>Are other people able to get the Mac runtime to open
>the Windows runtime's files? If so, how do you do it? Do I need the .DLL
>files as well to get the Windows .103 files to open?
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Dave Shaw Northwest Classics, Inc
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