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Re: enscript and Y2K

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Thu May 18 18:05:18 2000

To: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@mit.edu>
Cc: bugs@mit.edu
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 18 May 2000 18:05:14 -0400
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<rar@MIT.EDU> (Roger A. Roach) writes:

> Dennis Baron showed me some output today that had been through enscript and
> had a date of the form 100/05/18.  I remember some Y2K bug in UNIX that
> created a year 100.  Is this the cause?  Do we know about it?

The Athena developers are aware of this problem and will include a fix
in 8.4.

-- 
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)

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