Re: Question: How will the Year 2000 bug impact your work?

On Mon, 28 Oct 1996 19:15:55 +1000, Susan Penrose <suep@acslink.aone.net.au> posted: >I used to work at an hospital where the pathology programs were written in Fortran. >The '19' part of the year was hardcoded into many many programs. I'm glad I don't work >there anymore. Having the '19's hardcoded in isn't so bad; if the source code exists and is compilable, it should be plausible to write software to search for '19's and fairly accurately assess the extent of the "2000" damage. And it's probably conceivable to search the binaries for "19" and substitute "20." It has to be done carefully, but it's at least conceivable. Fixing code that doesn't have space for the "19" or "20" is a *lot* scarier. -- Christopher B. Browne, cbbrowne@unicomp.net, chris_browne@sdt.com Web: http://www.conline.com/~cbbrowne/ SAP Basis Consultant, UNIX Guy Windows NT - How to make a 100 MIPS Linux workstation perform like an 8 MHz 286