Klarinet Archive - Posting 000028.txt from 2000/01

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Y2K!!!
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 19:58:43 -0500

From: "redcedar" <redcedar@-----.au>
> Well, Lelia, I am pleased you shared this experience, as it now gives me
the
> confidence to boot up the other geriatric gear I've got here with a
similar
> profile to yours.

Be cautious with any spreadsheets that have date calculations, accounting
programs (!), or word processing document templates that automatically fill
in the date.

There's a number of other types of programs that access the date via
"normal" means and "abnormal" means. On my pre-1997 Compaq Presario (now the
wife & kid's computer) with non-updateable BIOS, Compaq provided a device
driver to fix problems with programs that access the date "normally", but
for those programs bypassing the "normal" way there is a very good chance
that the date will be wrong.

Cheers,
mark C.

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