Re: XyWrite III+

["Walter Jowers" walter.jowers@xxxxxxxx]

I'm not exactly Y2K paranoid, but I have read that many older DOS-based
programs will simply refuse to start on Jan 1 Y2K.

I don't write code, so I don't know the details.

Since you seem to know so more than I do about this, maybe you can tell us
how you know that XYIII *won't* "blow up," by which I mean just plain refuse
to work. Have you gone through the code, tested and proved it to be Y2K
ready?

If you use your imagination, you don't see *any* problems with Y2K &
12-year-old applications?

Walter Jowers, Nashville
E-mail: walter.jowers@xxxxxxxx

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Evans 
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 7:56 AM
Subject: Re: XyWrite III+


> At 08:06 PM 11/9/99 -0600, you wrote:
>
> >Does anybody know for sure what will happen to XyWrite
> >III+ (and data files) on Y2K day?
>
> Use your imagination. What *could* happen?
>
> >Will it all blow up on Jan 1? Thanks.
>
> How could any word processor, even [insert the name of the most cretinous,
> detestable word processor you've ever heard of] "blow up" on Jan 1 or any
> other day? How could any of the files it produces (unless perhaps these
> have bizarre macros embedded in them) "blow up"?
>
> For common sense, please see http://kumite.com/myths/ and
> http://www.hartscientific.com/y2k.htm (with thanks to Wolfgang Bechstein
> for the latter).
> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
> Peter Evans