VB Forum / COM / January 2005

There's no way to get VB5 to load source that's stored in binary format.
You'll need to locate someone with VB3, send them the project and have them
load and save in ascii format.

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You must use VB3 or VB4 to convert binary source files to text.  You could
try to find VB3/4 on eBay, but I doubt you'd have much luck.

You just have one VB3 project you need converted?  Totally your choice, but
if you want to, I can convert it for you. I understand if you don't want to
do this since it means you'd have to give your source code to someone, but
other than buying VB3 or VB4 or finding someone willing to convert the files
to text for you, there's nothing else you can do.

Ken and Mike covered the subject.  It would be reasonable, IMO, to trust
someone to do the conversion for you -- esp, if you paid them a small
amount, and had a signed agreement about the intellectual property ownership
of the result.

Dick