Pfligersdorffer, Christian wrote:

Hi folks, hi Robert,

did anyone notice that xml archives can be loaded where other archive types throw an "unsupported version" exception? I was rather surprised when I was able to read in an xml archive created by 1.41 using 1.34! The internal library version changed twice since then, so ...

... are you a magician, Robert? :-) Or is this an undocumented virtue of xml archives? Or is this just a bug nobody seems to have noticed before?

Regards,

I have no explanation. Archives should all act the same so it's likely a bug somewhere. Note that text base archives actually "transform" the data into text an back so it could be that this "transformation" fixes something by accident Robert Ramey