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From: dmt@mtunb.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Rd: Re: software other than utilities
Message-ID: <1353@mtunb.ATT.COM>
Date: 4 Jan 89 14:43:56 GMT
References: <16129@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: dmt@mtunb.UUCP (Dave Tutelman)
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs - Lincroft, NJ
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In article <16129@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon@iuvax.UUCP (RAMontante) writes:
>rickc@agora.UUCP (Rick Coates) writes:
>
>>(note the year is 1988 - #!%$&# PC can't handle year changes, and I haven't
>>changed mine yet!)
>
>Huhhhh???????????  Mine caught the new year 3 hours before I did.

'Fraid mine didn't.  I noticed it never caught the new year when
"make" started working funny (specifically, not recompiling new stuff).
Interestingly, my machine at work caught the new year just fine.

>Consider the MSDOS "DATE" command, which
>Microsoft and IBM probably think of as a "utility" (rather than one
>more piece of incriminating evidence).  [ Prompt for "New Date" indicates
> "utility" ]

Maybe now we know WHY Microsoft & IBM included the prompt  :-(

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