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From: dornakul on 25 Mar 2010 05:23 Hi all, A colleague has an older Version of Mathematica (4.1) and cannot open my notebooks. I run Mathematica Version 7. Is there a way to convert my Notebooks to make them compatible with the lower version? Thank you for your help! Dornakul
From: David Bailey on 26 Mar 2010 06:36 dornakul wrote: > Hi all, > > A colleague has an older Version of Mathematica (4.1) and cannot open > my notebooks. > I run Mathematica Version 7. > Is there a way to convert my Notebooks to make them compatible with > the lower version? > > Thank you for your help! > Dornakul > If you convert your notebook into a .m file, it should be possible to read it with Get in 4.1, but I am not sure if you can display it and cut and paste it back into a 4.1 notebook. However, you could open the .m file with a text editor and cut and paste from that into a 4.1 notebook. Of course, having done that, you would have to make changes to eliminate the use of any new functions, and you would have to remember that plots were generated as a side-effect back then! David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk
From: dr DanW on 26 Mar 2010 06:37
If you Save As... Mathematica Package (*.m) you will get an ASCII text file that should be open-able in 4.1, although you will loose a lot of Notebook formatting (all non-evaluatable cells will be (* comments *) ). Your friend will have to hunt down syntax changes and re-code newer functions to their older equivalents if possible. I am not sure how 4.1 will handle the Unicode characters (like \[Alpha]), so there may still be some work there. At least this will let him open the file, though. Daniel |