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   Message 288 of 531   
   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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