[107627] in Cypherpunks
Re: your mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Olsen)
Tue Jan 19 20:41:26 1999
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 09:13:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>
To: alan@clueserver.org
cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199901191239.NAA06481@replay.com>
Reply-To: Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Anonymous wrote:
> THE END IS NEAR.
For this kind of crap... (We can hope.)
> And if you're really pressed for time at this late date, you should try SyncSort.
> It can:
> Sort two-digit year fields correctly by creating a "century window"
And watch it fail on dates that are supposed to be outside of the window.
(Like birthdays. But then sales people have no problem with old people
outside their windows. Freezing. In the cold.)
> Change two-digit year fields to four-digits easily and quickly
> Select the data you need for Y2K testing and age the dates, and
> Replace complicated COBOL and other programs with simple applications
> that select records, reformat them, summarize fields, and sort.
Of course this wonderous piece of software runs on what? Probably Windows
only. My bogon meter is pegging at this point.
> And, best of all, SyncSort can do all these things -- fast.
> Click here to arrange a FREE TRIAL: http://www.syncsort.com/pm19y .
Trials are NEVER free. (Unless you have a public defender and then you
get what you pay for.)
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