AppleWorks 4/5 Y2K

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

Here's a note on the ProDos 2.03 issue.

AppleWorks 4.0 to 5.1 _must_ be run under ProDos 2.03 after January 1 for
certain date issues to work properly. If you run AppleWorks 5.1 under an older
ProDos, such as v1.7 or 1.9, these particular date features will display a
century of 19, even though AppleWorks 5.1 knows it's 20.

Since AppleWorks 4 to 5.1 comes with ProDos 2.03 right on the disk, it's
unlikely that someone would be running it under an older version of ProDos. I
only mention it because it seems to be a concrete reason for using ProDos 2.03,
even with an 8-bit program. I tested this on a IIGS set to a date in 2000 - I
did not test on a iie or iic.

This brings the number of Y2K issues in AppleWorks 5.1 to three, and brings in
a first Y2K bug in AppleWorks 4. The other two AW 5.1 (not 4) issues
(Spreadsheet, macros) are fixed with patches or by replacing the errant files.
This ProDos problem is not patchable; just make sure you 're using ProDos 2.03.
It's right on the 4.0-5.1 disk.

Beverly Cadieux 
Y2K info at http://members.aol.com/A2MG