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Re: XyWrite III+
- Subject: Re: XyWrite III+
- From: leslie bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:06:31 -0500
Peregrine@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> I tried this (see below), too, and here's what I got in XyWrite III+ by
> advancing my system date to November 2000. This is a partial directory
> listing, with the file DATETEST created in the simulated year 2000:
>
> DATETEST 9 11-10-100 9:11p
> TESTING 1091 11-05-99 8:47p
> TESTDATE 9 11-10-99 9:10p
> ___________________________________________
>
> So that's a little odd, but tolerable to me. As Leslie advised, the display
> when calling the date in a text file is correct, and reads: 11 10 2000
>
Yep. That's what we were told to expect.
>
> Nothing blew up. All functions within XyWrite seemed unaffected. But when I
> shut off the computer later and went upstairs, aliens had disemboweled my
> ferret. So I will be better prepared for that next time.
>
Aliens? I hardly think so. Clearly this is the work of Budweiser Louie.
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