Subj : Compression question
To   : Bo Simonsen
From : Jerry Schwartz
Date : Mon Jul 28 2003 03:21 pm

Hello, Bo...

Jul 28, 2003 at 14:35, Bo Simonsen wrote to Jerry Schwartz:

 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.

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

Unless you are running a non-Y2K-compliant message generator, which is pretty 
unlikely on Unix, you'll never see the problem. It isn't a problem with Squish, 
but with other odds and ends.

Regards,

Jerry Schwartz

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

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