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Skriven 2009-07-12 06:03:00 av Dave Drum (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Dan Ceppa
Ärende: Y2K Bug in OLR
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 DC> What's MM?  Meal Master?  :)

 DD> The OLR I am using currently - Multi-Mail. Other than an unfortunate
 DD> tendency to drop the first character on a random basis when it wraps
 DD> lines ... it's a decent enough OLR and doesn't have the Y2K bug that
 DD> the Blue Wave OLR has.

 DC> What Y2L bug?  My setup with it never experienced that problem!

At the time I was using an Amiga and an OLR called QBlue - so the Y2k crap
meant bupkiss to me as the Amiga was not susceptible to it. But, it caused a
lot of hassles in the DOS/Winders/PeeCee world. Until my friend Dale Shipp
wrote a patch for it.

Here's the article from Wikipedia ...

The Y2K date problem hit Blue Wave, like so many other programs. The Blue Wave
Reader that the end users use to read their mail exhibited the problem by the
addition of a numerical digit leading the TO: name in the header. The Blue Wave
Door on the BBS' exhibited the problem by creating three digit years where
there should have been a two digit year. Several fixes not directly related to
Blue Wave were created but they worked on the actual messages after they had
been imported into the local message bases.

In October 1999, Dale Shipp created a fix called BWREPFIX that corrects the
problem on the users end. This solution uses a batch file in the archiver
section rather than calling the archiver directly. In the batch file, the
outbound message dates are fixed and then the batch file calls the archiver
which then packs the messages for transmitting to the BBS. 
 
 DD> I use mine with an editor known as "Notepad++"  which has a built in
 DD> spell checker ... but, doesn't do anything about the dropping of first
 DD> characters mentioned above.

 DC> I use a TSR spell checker, though not as ofter as I sloulhd .  :)

MM calls the editor w/spell checker for every reply. Of course then I have to
invoke the spell checker by pressing Control-Alt-Shift-S.

ENJOY!!!

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