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From: abcscnuk@csuna.csun.edu (Naoto Kimura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: (Yes my) SW Make it to the year 2000?
Message-ID: <2057@csuna.csun.edu>
Date: 5 Jul 89 15:00:22 GMT
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Reply-To: abcscnuk@csuna.csun.edu (Naoto Kimura)
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I remember going through some code on the IBM 4341 over at UCLA, when I
came across the code for getting the date on the system.  The comment
said something to the effect that the code is assured to work until the
year 2100..  Funny, but I didn't expect such a machine was still going
to be around (it was written in assembler with some pretty strange parts
in it, which might make it difficult to port) -- but then again, with
IBM...

Speaking of date codes being trashed after a while...  I ported a
program for Nordskog last year..  They were using a TRS-80 model 4, and
it refused to have a date past 1986 !  It was really confusing to see
the date and time, as some files really were dated then and others were
really past that date.  Some disks that were labeled "backup" were
being used as the primary copy.

Porting the program wasn't too bad except for the control characters
that appeared in the code (so that when you viewed it on the 64 column
screen, it was indented).  Transferring the 150 data files took a bit of
time, since I could only get reliable transmission across on the RS232
port at 300 baud.  One thing I found to be irritating was having to
change the DATA statements for the program that I hacked out to
automate the transfer of the datafiles (I couldn't figure out a nice
way to get the directory info on the disk -- sending the directory info
to a file then reading the file was out of the question on some disks
as they had no space left).

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