Re: Y2K and P8 TN #28 (Re: No-Slot Clock)

[a2mg@aol.comNoMail (TEXAS II - AppleWorks)]

First of all, I was wrong about data bases sorting properly in older versions
of AW. They still don't sort with 00 later than 99. I must have been using v5.1
when I did that. Sorry.

Second, the @Today problem is only in AW 5.1, because that's the only version
which has an @today function. It was a basic "goof" in the supposedly fully
Y2K- compliant AppleWorks 5.1. My patch fixes the standard (non-Bredon)
version.

>It would have been very useful if Claris could
>have released a "3.0.1" 

AppleWorks 3.0 WAS a Y2K update of sorts. It allows you to enter the year 00 to
82 at startup, something AppleWorks 1 and 2 won't allow. AW 3.0 contains no
century other than a cosmetic 19 (not used in data base dates), so sorting was
not an issue until now.  (Although the century byte is in AppleWorks 3.0 at
$AB13, it is never used until AppleWorks 4.x).

I have to get off this story, sorry (too distracting from other jobs). It was a
great patch, but I'll stick with what Apple says.

I still would like to know where ProDos says "if less than 40 then century is
20." If it did, everything would work.



Beverly Cadieux 
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