Re: Wanted: Bev's Free Patcher for AppleWorks

[Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net>]

Stavros,

May I ask which version of AppleWorks (2.0, 2.1, 3.0 or 5.1) you are using?

Generally speaking, AppleWorks 5.1 itself was written to be Y2K compliant
out of the box. You shouldn't need to patch it.

There are a couple of special caveats, though.

First, if you use Glen 'Mr. ProSel' Bredon's method (as opposed to Apple's
method as used in ProDOS 2.0.3) of patching ProDOS 8 for Y2K compliance,
AppleWorks 5.1 requires a 2-byte patch in order to display the correct
century in certain function results. For example, typing the <option>-'
macro [print date] will show Month XX, 19xx instead of Month XX, 20xx if the
patch is not made.

I use Bredon's method (in spite of the admonishment of plenty of people I
respect) and developed this 2-byte patch. Let me know if you'd like me to
post it here. I posted it to Delphi about 12 years ago, but probably never
here in the newsgroups.

Second, if you do _not_ use Bredon's patch (i.e. - you use a stock unpatched
ProDOS 2.0.3), one of the UltraMacros 'DOT' command files has a date command
that needs patching. I think Bev figured that one out and handled it, BTW.


If instead you are using AppleWorks 2.0/2.1/3.0, I again would refer you to
the first link I referenced in the Internet Archive site. I looked at it
again just moments ago and it shows very explicit instructions on patching
those earlier versions of AppleWorks.

Maybe there is a chance you didn't scroll down the page far enough to see
them?

<http://web.archive.org/web/19991106042256/http://members.aol.com/A2MG/dl.ht
ml>







Hugh Hood

 
P.S. - I dread the year 2028 -- the year I regret having made Bredon's
patch. <grin>




in article 
667d6f40-5aa2-4bae-9c19-6acdb24cc8bd@f27g2000yqc.googlegroups.com, Stavros
Karatsoridis at skaratso@gmail.com wrote on 5/8/12 7:14 PM:

> On May 8, 4:18�pm, Mike Spurgeon <spurg...@garlic.com> wrote:
>> On 5/7/2012 7:32 PM, Stavros Karatsoridis wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello all,
>> 
>>> I wonder if anyone has a copy of Beverly Cadieux's Free Patcher
>>> program for AppleWorks which contains Y2K patches for all versions of
>>> AppleWorks through 5.1?
>> 
>> Where does Appleworks get it's dates? �If you patch ProDos, would that work?
> 
> Patching ProDOS will not fix the internal handling of dates within
> AppleWorks itself. That only affects time and date stamps on files,
> which is not the problem.