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Re: Y2K Prodos or GS/OS Patch
- Subject: Re: Y2K Prodos or GS/OS Patch
- From: a2mg@aol.comNomail (TEXAS II - AppleWorks)
- Date: 2000/01/30
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com
- References: <86t1r0$dpa$1@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net>
> Since 1991, ProDOS dates have been well defined, and they cover 1940 to 2039.
Unfortunately, most Apple II software was written before 1991, and was never
changed to comply with the new rules. Even those written later didn't get the
message. Did you think that all pre-1991 programs would somehow get updated?
I have never seen a directory listing of files which differentiated between
pre-40 and post-40 years. A few of them say [Nodate] because the programmer
errored out the Year 00 (this is easily fixed), but nobody, except possibly
GS/OS apps, implemented the 39/40 instruction in a directory listing of files.
Beverly Cadieux
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