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   Message 284 of 531   
   mark lewis to Martin Ruzicka   
   BlueWave Mail Door for RemoteAccess 3.20   
   06 Feb 15 17:36:08   
   
    On Fri, 06 Feb 2015, Martin Ruzicka wrote to mark lewis:   
      
    MR>> Does anyone know if is possible register this product somewhere?    
    MR>> I need some QWK Mail Door for ELE BBS and I remembered this sw.   
      
    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.   
      
   yeah, i think that is the original add-on fix that dale shipp put out... it   
   replaces your zip command with a script to run which fixes the rep before it   
   is uploaded...   
      
   there is a binary patch that's available now, though... it actually patches   
   the C runtime stuff related to the time and date so that it doesn't return   
   greater than 100 for years 2000 and up...   
      
   explanation: the library writers took a short cut and simply subtract the   
   current year from the base year which gives three digit results now... before   
   y2k, 1999 returned 99... then 2000 returned 100 which caused the problem   
   because other authors didn't check the length and trim the result to use only   
   the last two characters...   
      
    MR> I will look at your BBS and try to find.   
      
   i saw a FREQ from you for NODELIST which failed for some reason... i'll have   
   to look and see if i can figure out how it arrived and why one of the allfixes   
   didn't process it correctly... hopefully you've been able to find the file you   
   needed for bluewave :)   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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