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 Message 288 
 mark lewis to Nancy Backus 
 BlueWave Mail Door for RemoteAccess 3.20 
 08 Feb 15 09:32:54 
 
 On Sun, 08 Feb 2015, Nancy Backus wrote to mark lewis:

 ml>> the main problem you are going to run into is y2k related... the 
 ml>> door has y2k problems as do the clients... there is a patch 
 ml>> available on my system in the bluewave files area that you might 
 ml>> be able to apply to fix the y2k date problem...

 MR> I remember that I used BW-Y2K fix or something like that.

 ml> yeah, i think that is the original add-on fix that dale shipp put 
 ml> out... it replaces your zip command with a script to run which 
 ml> fixes the rep before it is uploaded... there is a binary patch 
 ml> that's available now, though... it actually patches the C runtime 
 ml> stuff related to the time and date so that it doesn't return 
 ml> greater than 100 for years 2000 and up... 

 NB> BW-Y2K.zip is the file that has the binary patch.  Dale's was 
 NB> BWrepfix, most recent one I have is BWRF062.zip...  

ahhh! i get them mixed up sometimes and i didn't go look to be sure before i
posted... thanks for the clarification :) 

 NB> Piggybacking on this...

answered in the postoffice :) 

)\/(ark

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