Hi Bernard,
I'm sorry to read that you have more problems. Apparently, you save
the stacks one more time, somehow.
Make sure that your scripts don't save the stacks again, when quitting
Rev 3.0, or set the Rev preferences to preserve the (legacy) format,
or don't click "Save" when Rev asks you whether or not to save the
stack.
I go back and forth between different versions all the time and never
see this problem, although I admit I have to be really careful that I
don't accidentally save a stack in the wrong format. Is there anything
else that might be relevant to reproduce the problem?
I guess you could save a stack and copy it to a different place before
quitting Rev 3.0, even though this wouldn't be a very elegant solution.
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On 6 okt 2008, at 13:45, Bernard Devlin wrote:
Since I've now had to revert to using Rev 2.6.1 from 3 years ago, I
need to
convert various stacks to 'legacy format'. After doing this with
some of
stacks, I then found that they were still in a post 2.7 format. I
thought
I'd made a mistake and went over it many times using Rev 3.0 and
2.6.1, but
the stacks simply wouldn't convert. I was reduced to examining the
stacks
in a text editor to see that they did indeed say 2.4, but then as
soon as I
quit Rev 3.0 they would not load in 2.6.1, and looking at them again
in a
text editor, they were back in 2.7 formt. But yesterday I was able
to save
my performance test stack in legacy format (maybe it was written on
2.6.1
though, I can't remember). I just opened it in 3.0, and saved it in
2.6.1
as legacy and it remained as legacy after rev 3.0 quit.
But here's what I'm seeing with some stacks:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls *.rev
perf-test-leg.rev test-legacy.rev
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ more test-legacy.rev
#!/bin/sh
# MetaCard 2.4 stack
# The following is not ASCII text,
# so now would be a good time to q out of more^L
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ more test-legacy.rev
<<<---- REV 3.0 was quit just before this point
REVO2700�revNavigator 1 �R��global
gScriptBuddyIDarray,gScriptBuddyLineArray,gSB
UpdateSelection,gSBLeadSpaces
I had thought maybe it was because these stacks were in the plugins
folder
of 2.6.1 that they were being reverted on exit from 3.0. But then I
saved
one of them to my home directory, and checked it was in 2.4 format.
But as
soon as I quit Rev 3.0 it was back in 2.7 format (as you can see
above). At
no point did Rev 3.0 ask me if wanted to save the stacks when I
chose to
quit, so I can see no reason why they are back in 2.7 format. I
tried it
on 2.9, and it too re-converted the stack on quitting.
Could someone else please confirm this apparently erratic
behaviour. I'm
starting to doubt my sanity. The particular stacks were the
stsmlxEditor
and Geoff Canyon's revNavigator. Maybe it is only a Linux thing.
I just want to know that saving in legacy format is still working
reliably.
I have a lot more of my own stacks to convert, and if this doesn't
work,
I'm stuck with the insanely buggy 3.0 (I have no confidence in 2.9
either -
it locked up my laptop yesterday requiring a hard reset).
Bernard
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