Re: Y2K Prodos or GS/OS Patch

[greg@apple2.com]

In article <20000201041351.00405.00000682@ng-fr1.aol.com>,
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

> jcountry@seidata.com writes that the Mastery Development network 
> software used in the school where he teaches at is also broken by Y2K 
> because the software thinks 00 is before 99 causing the backup 
> function not to work.  They can't get backups so their students are 
> sitting on a time-bomb if the hard drive crashes.  He is still 
> looking for a solution.

How about a program that advances the dates of all files "newer" than 
the current date to 01/02/00 and starting a new full backup?

You can't rely on incremental backups forever.  Making full backups at 
least monthly might be a good thing for him to do, 00-problem or not.

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