Re: Y2K Prodos or GS/OS Patch

[a2mg@aol.comNomail (TEXAS II - AppleWorks)]

>>I have never seen a directory listing of files which differentiated between
>>pre-40 and post-40 years.
>
>"Make it so."  It's not too late to revise or patch whatever needs it.

After spending the better part of 18 months updating Y2K issues in ProSel
(which is public domain), only to have the author appear with his own ideas
just before New Year's eve, I wouldn't touch ProSel with a 100- foot pole.
Someone with source code could probably add this in.

AppleWorks is probably doable, but the problem is that  we don't have source
that can be assembled into a program segment. In order to change AppleWorks'
directory listing, we can only replace (patch) code, not add code. In the few
places where we do add code, we must find a useless screen message in nearby
code, replace it with our routine, then JSR to it.

We generally feel that the AppleWorks date-sort problem is relatively minor,
and can be fixed simply by updating all the files in the most often-used
directory to a date after 1/1/00.

>I've done the coding and testing for Davex 1.3, but haven't done the
>release notes & the upload yet.  (In Davex, it's not just the [optionally]
>sorted directory listings that are affected, it's also the "modchk" and
>update commands.)

I'm not familiar with Davex (sorry), but it sounds like somebody could write a
small utility program to replace ProSel's Sort-directory-and-write-it-to-disk 
feature, using the 39 to 40 rule. Likewise, ProSel's file COPY feature has a
"newer than" mod comparison. Somebody might think about writing that new little
program.... ;-)  




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