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  • Is MAXS_302.ZIP Y2k+ compliant ?

    From Mvan Le@3:800/432 to Scott Dudley on Saturday, February 20, 2010 18:03:32
    Hello :)

    Were the Y2k changes made in MAXS_302.ZIP ?


    --- Maximus 3.01
    * Origin: Xaragmata / Adelaide SA telnet://xaragmata.mooo.com (3:800/432)
  • From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to Mvan Le on Saturday, February 20, 2010 10:08:20
    Were the Y2k changes made in MAXS_302.ZIP ?

    Why bother ... shortly we're going to be discussing Y3K. :-)

    \%/@rd

    --- D'Bridge 3.49
    * Origin: Many Glacier -- "The Lord of the Pings" (2:292/854)
  • From Mvan Le@3:800/432 to Ward Dossche on Sunday, February 21, 2010 00:47:14
    Were the Y2k changes made in MAXS_302.ZIP ?

    Why bother ... shortly we're going to be discussing Y3K. :-)

    Are there y3k problems already ? where ?

    --- Maximus 3.01
    * Origin: Xaragmata / Adelaide SA telnet://xaragmata.mooo.com (3:800/432)
  • From andrew clarke@3:633/267.1 to Mvan Le on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 02:20:46
    On Sat 2010-02-20 18:03, Mvan Le (3:800/432) wrote to Scott Dudley:

    Were the Y2k changes made in MAXS_302.ZIP ?

    I can't find anything that describes the changes between Maximus 3.00 & 3.01, but I suspect most if not all Y2K bugs were fixed when Maximus 3.01 was released, otherwise we'd be hearing about them from people running Max 3.01. Ditto, Squish 1.10 & 1.11.

    If you grep for y2k in the CVS you get this:

    squish/s_misc.c: /* Y2K kludge date fix */

    If you want to keep yourself busy, look for 2038 bugs:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

    Good luck ;-)

    --- timEd/Linux 1.11.b5
    * Origin: Blizzard of Ozz, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (3:633/267.1)
  • From Mvan Le@3:800/432 to Andrew Clarke on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 20:19:12
    I can't find anything that describes the changes
    between Maximus 3.00 & 3.01, but I suspect most if not
    all Y2K bugs were fixed when Maximus 3.01 was released,
    otherwise we'd be hearing about them from people
    running Max 3.01. Ditto, Squish 1.10 & 1.11.

    Yeah but the original v3.01 release was apparently not y2k compliant.

    To my knowledge, a y2k compliant copy-over-existing-executables patch of v3.01 was later released. ie. there was no version changes between the original non-y2k and y2k compliant executables.

    --- Maximus 3.01
    * Origin: Xaragmata / Adelaide SA telnet://xaragmata.mooo.com (3:800/432)
  • From andrew clarke@3:633/267.1 to Mvan Le on Thursday, February 25, 2010 07:06:42
    On Wed 2010-02-24 20:19, Mvan Le (3:800/432) wrote to Andrew Clarke:

    To my knowledge, a y2k compliant copy-over-existing-executables
    patch of v3.01 was later released. ie. there was no version changes between the original non-y2k and y2k compliant executables.

    Ah, I'd forgotten that completely, thanks. Confusingly they are "beta" versions but still marked as version 3.01 even though the full version of 3.01 had been out several years - but the files all have the timestamp of 1999-01-01
    03:02:00, ie. version 3.02!

    Anyway, for reference I've uploaded them here:

    http://bbs.ozzmosis.com/max301n2.zip
    http://bbs.ozzmosis.com/max301p2.zip
    http://bbs.ozzmosis.com/max301r2.zip

    Squish also had Y2K patches:

    http://bbs.ozzmosis.com/squ111p2.zip
    http://bbs.ozzmosis.com/squ111r2.zip

    --- timEd/Linux 1.11.b5
    * Origin: Blizzard of Ozz, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (3:633/267.1)