file dating in Xy 3.54

[Carlo Caballero Carlo.Caballero@xxxxxxxx]

On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Alan Lothian wrote:
>
>  Does anyone know how to get round Xy3's Millennium problem
> with 1996? All files dated later than that show up as 1980, with
> 1998 coming out as 1982. The program knows that they aren't
> *really* 1980 whatever, since a dsort will put them in the
> correct date order. But the display still says 1981, 1980, 1982
> and presumably next year 1983. So 2000 AD will be 1984, a year
> I remember with some affection.
>

Dear Alan,
   I use 3.56 and haven't experienced anything like your problem. Nor
do I remember anyone on the list mentioning such a problem with XyWrite in
any version. Are you sure DOS isn't passing XyWrite an incorrect date?
You say the sorting does not match the dates (I assume you mean the
years); I'm not sure I understand how that disparity would be possible,
but if your description is accurate, what I say below may be useless.
   Try entering "dos" on the command line from withing XyWrite; then
type "date" at the DOS prompt, and see what year DOS thinks it is. You
can reset the date from within DOS, or just hit return to keep the
current date. (To get back to XyWrite, type "exit" at the DOS prompt.)
   The above instructions are valid for DOS 3.3; yours may be different.

Yours,
Carlo Caballero

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Carlo Caballero
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