Re: Help Q: ProDos Quicken & Y2K

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

The Apple II Mail Group wrote:

> >that it was too difficult to find where to patch to make it worthwhile.
>
> I found numerous places to patch. Some of the patches worked to allow the date
> entry, or to skip over it.  The trouble was that the data was not written to
> disk properly. It mysteriously changed to another date.

Strange. Too bad you couldn't get a copy of the source code.
Come to think of it - Pascal won't allow 2000 as a valid year at all. Versions 1.2
and 1.3 do allow 2001, as I recall, but 2000 comes up as 1999.

Roy

> We never did ask for
> disassembly of the write-to-disk routine, because I felt that we had already
> imposed enough on the disassembler's good will.
>
> If all you want is to change the 19 to a 20, that  is very simple. You will
> still be stuck with years between 68 and 99.
>
> Naturally, we also tried things like skipping over 00 and allowing 01, or
> having no date at all.
>
> Beverly Cadieux
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