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- PFE And The Year 2000
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- No explicit tests have been done on version 1.01.000 of PFE to see if it is
- Year 2000 compliant, but to the best of my belief no problems will arise.
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- PFE does not offer date-manipulation features to the user in any form, so there
- are no issues relating to how dates are typed or presented.
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- Internally, PFE's only use of dates and times is in determining whether files
- that are being edited have been altered on disk by other applications. It does
- this by using the Run Time Library stat() function to obtain the file's "last-
- written" time as a binary value, and comparing with a value obtained when the
- file was opened. Since the binary patterns are compared without interpretation,
- no problems can arise.
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- PFE is statically-linked with the Run Time Libraries supplied with Microsoft
- Visual C++ 1.52 (16-Bit Edition) and with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 SP2 (32-Bit
- Edition) but does not explicitly use any date-handling routines they supply.
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- January 20 1999
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