Subj : Compression question
To   : Jerry Schwartz
From : Bo Simonsen
Date : Mon Jul 28 2003 03:35 pm

Hello Jerry!

Jul 27 19:01 03, Jerry Schwartz wrote to Bo Simonsen:

 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. 

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

It's quite wierd because nobody has reported Y2k problems to me, then i've been 
testing Squish on Unix.

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

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

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

Ofcause he is, he's RC2:25 ;-) I guess he's on vacation or so, because i've not 
seen letters from him in ENET.SYSOP in along time, he's a active writer there.

Regards,
Bo

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