Subj : Fidonet and Y2K list
To   : GILLES BEAUREGARD
From : Jan Andreassen
Date : Sun May 28 2000 10:49 am

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  Greetings GILLES!

Tuesday May 23 2000 at 18:28 GILLES BEAUREGARD >> ALL
GB>    ----- FIDOY2K.TXT begins -----
GB> Y2K INFORMATION FOR FIDONET SYSOPS
GB> ==================================
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This is just a few comments from me - FWIW
Your list is very informative - thanks for it :-)

However - this point here I don't understand ....
GB> OPERATING SYSTEMS
GB> =================
GB> DR-DOS ------ YES

I'm using DR-DOS 7.03 ....  does the "YES" mean there are problems with
that OS?     If so I haven't seen any.   None at all!

GB> XLAX ----- YES
I use XLAXDIFF  version 2.57 - dated 29/4-1994.
Again - does the "YES" mean there is problems - or on the contrary
that it's OK?
It works perfect here - no errors whatsoever.

GB> FRONTDOOR ------- YES (version 2.26 required)
I use 2.26 - it works perfectly - no errors whatsoever.

GB> FMAIL ----- YES (Version 1.48 and above)
I use FMAIL 1.48b   - earlier versions had some errors -
1.48b   no errors whatsoever.

GB> PKZIP ----------- (Version 2.50)
Version 2.50 ??????????   I thought we still had version 2.04g  as the last
released version  ??????????????

GB> XROBOT ---------- YES (4.10)
Works perfectly  - no errors.

GB> GOLDED ------ UNKNOWN
A few years ago Golded's original author stopped working with it.
The sourcecode has been released to an "open domain" - I think it was called -
for anybody that would and could work with it make their own private versions
of GoldEd - free for others to use, if they released it.

I still use the ORIGINAL GoldEd - version 3.0.0 bea 5 - which was the very last
GoldEd that GoldEd's author Odinn Sorensen released from his BBS (now closed).
I can tell you that this version 3.0.0 beta 5  works without any errors -
at least here - no errors whatsoever.

Or maybe I should say I can't find any.  GoldEd is however not an easy program
to setup - but once done it is nothing less than simply perfect.
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When I write "no errors" I mean in the way the programs work.  I am not
referring to any  options that are not there or should've been there - only to
the programs and their options as they are.

With the programs I use I haven't seen any errors - and it is the same
programs that has been used since august 1999 and until
now - which means no Y2K bugs.   (Ppphhheeeeewwww   )

The other programs you have mentioned I have no knowledge about.

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