Re: GS Hard Drive Defrag Program

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Wayne Stewart replied:

>Steve Quarrella wrote:
>
>>  JB> I know ProSel is now public domain
>>
>> Did it survive Y2K?
>
>It was updated for Y2K. Glen Bredon did that just before he died.
>The previous versions were not Y2K compliant though

Yes, but not without controversy...  ;-(

Apple had "standardized" a 2-digit "windowed" year representation,
in which years from 40..99 meant 1940..1999 and years from
00..39 meant 2000..2039.  All the Y2K patches for the A2 that
I know of tried to follow that standard.

Glen took a different approach, by allowing years 100..127 to
mean 2000..2027, making use of the binary representation of
the two-digit year field.  This approach sorts "right", but is a
departure from the Apple standard, and so conflicts with other
Y2K patches and with other file system implementations (on
the Mac, for example).

-michael

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