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Re: Millenarianism (was: Xywrite

Reply to note from Peter Evans  Thu, 28 May
1998 10:53:14 +0900

-> I'd imagine--but don't claim to know--that the Y2K
-> (in)compatibilities of XyWrite 4 (DOS) and XyWrite for Windows
-> will be the same.

Out of curiousity, I set my system date (OS/2 v4 + FixPak 6, which
is Y2K-compliant) to 2001 to test the embedded DAte command. The
default date mask  worked fine in both Xy4 (v4.017)
and III+ (v3.58, which is network-compatible). However, embedding
 yields "05-28-101" in Xy4; ironically, the older III+
returns the proper result, "05-28-01". In DIRectory listings, III+
lists the creation date of a newly-created file as "05-28-01"
(correct), whereas in 4 you get "05-28-:1" (weird).

There are compelling reasons to upgrade from Xy III+ to 4; getting a
leg up on Y2K isn't one of them. It's hard to conceive of a Y2K
glitch that couldn't be worked around in any version of Xy.


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Carl Distefano
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