Forms 6i and Forms 10g

Hi, I have hundreds of forms. Most of them are in 6i and few of them have been changed to 10g. Now when I look at a form from my windows explorer, is there any way to know which version this form is being used in. For eg. I have a test.fmb and I can see it in my C drive in windows explorer. But by looking at the fmb, I dont come to know if its in 6i version or already been converted to 10g. I need to know this so that by mistake I dont open a 6i version to 10g. Cause once I open it in 10g, I wont be able to open it back in 6i and it will be a problem in case I dont hv the old original saved.
Pls advise?? Thanks.

Hi ,
I don't think that you can do that in the way you want.....
However , you can use the forms compiler of 6i and try to compile each form.....
If a form has been compiled in 6i the it'll be compiled again... otherwise it won't..and by noticing the error log files created you can distinguish these files.... !!!!!
Regards,
Simon

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