Re: Convert to lower Mathematica version
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- Subject: [mg108655] Re: Convert to lower Mathematica version
- From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:36:30 -0500 (EST)
- References: <hofa31$4i9$1@smc.vnet.net>
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