Re: I need to download BASIC.SYSTEM ... SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!

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

The AppleWorks 3.0 data base only displays the year, not the century (although
there is a century byte in there, it is not used). AppleWorks 3.0 will not sort
dates so that 00 follows 99. For that, you need AppleWorks 4.3 or 5.1.  Reports
that span both centuries will have to be sorted manually, by picking up those
records and plunking them down in the proper place. AppleWorks 3.0's  sort
command, OA-A, will not do it. 00 will always sort as older than 99. There will
probably be a lot of workarounds posted to enter a category for the century,
sort on that, etc. AppleWorks 4/5 does handle this correctly, because it
considers the century when it sorts dates.

The 19 to 20 patch is merely cosmetic. Most people won't even notice it, as
there are only 3 _cosmetic_ places where the century appears in AppleWorks 3.0.
They are (a) at the top of DB reports, (b) in the word processor PD command
(print date), and in UltraMacros, in the {date} command.

The other AppleWorks 3.0 patch is probably more critical, and lets you enter
they year 00 in a data base date category. Right now it's prohibited. (!) That
patch can be applied now.

Note that AppleWorks 5 has its own Y2K problems and all versions will have to
be fixed. We just discovered a new bug in AW5, which is written about in our
current newsletter. We have also discovered a conflict in the AppleWorks
2.0/2.1 patches, also written about in the newsletter.



Beverly Cadieux 
The Apple II Mail Group - http://members.aol.com/A2MG