Subj : Compression question
To   : Bo Simonsen
From : Jerry Schwartz
Date : Sun Jul 27 2003 08:01 pm

Hello, Bo...

Jul 27, 2003 at 13:57, Bo Simonsen wrote to Jerry Schwartz:

 BS> Hello Jerry!

 BS> Jul 26 22:10 03, Jerry Schwartz wrote to Bo Simonsen:

 BS>>> Okey, maybe we could make a fix out in current-squish?

 JS>> Philosophically, I'm opposed to that. Squish should expect valid 
 JS>> data; utilities should generate valid data; if you know you have a 
 JS>> problem, you should explicitly fix it.

 JS>> If you want to add that feature, make it something you can turn on 
 JS>> and off.

 BS> Do you have somekind of algoritm? I mean pseudocode, or something 
 BS> witch can help me understand the problem. 

It's been awhile, but I believe the problem is that "some things" (MakeNL, for 
one) write a 3-digit year, with the year 200 coming out as 100. Exactly what 
happens depends upon whether the date is in SeaDog or Fido format, but that's 
the gist of it. There are some illicit variations in date format to be watched 
out for, as well.

The program I use, Y2KDate, was released with good documentation and source 
code in C. I suggest, however, that you contact the author:

David Rance
2:252/110
david.rance@ichthus.dircon.co.uk

It's conceivable that he has a later version than I. David is still active in 
FidoNet.

Regards,

Jerry Schwartz

mailto:jerryschwartz@comfortable.com
http://www.writebynight.com

--- Msged/NT 6.0.1
 * Origin: Write by Night (1:142/928)

.