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- YearIn 1.1 Quick Guide
- DEMO: Two-Digit Year Input or Difference
- Copyright (c) 1995-1996 by David M. Wincelberg
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- Overview
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- This program demonstrates a routine that properly handles two-
- digit year inputs and differences for the current and next
- century. For example, 98 converts to 1998 and 3 becomes 2003.
- The pair of partial years (90, 95) converts to (1890, 1995) for a
- difference of 105 years. In addition, this routine is
- incorporated into an edit box or data-entry field that expands a
- two-digit year into a four-digit year when you move away from it.
- Thus, YearIn's year-resolution routine virtually eliminates the
- need to enter four-digit years and allows databases that use two-
- digit years to continue to be usable in the 21st century.
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- To use YearIn in Windows 3.1 or 95, start YEARIN.EXE, click
- on the Input menu, and select either A Year, Year Difference,
- Examples, or Dynamic Edit Box. For the first option, enter a
- one-, two-, or three-digit year and click on the OK button or
- press Enter to close the dialog box. The input and the result
- will appear in a scrolling list in YearIn's main window. In
- addition, you may set the active year in this dialog box to some
- year other than the current one. For example, try entering 98
- for active years 1996 and 2000. You will get the same four-digit
- year.
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- The year-difference option will produce a dialog box that
- accepts a pair of two-digit years and allows setting the active
- year and the minimum difference between years. Try entering 90
- and 95 to get a difference of 105 years. The inputs and outputs
- for this calculation will also appear in the main window. The
- primary benefit of the year-difference logic is that databases
- that use two-digit years to store birth and current (or death)
- years do NOT need to be modified. Following is the sample output
- from this program that is generated by selecting the Examples
- option.
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- Input(s) Full Year(s) Difference Active Year MinDiff
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- 98 1998 1996
- 3 2003 1996
- 98 1998 2000
- 3 2003 2000
- 3, 98 1903, 1998 95 1996 25
- 90, 95 1890, 1995 105 1996 25
- 3, 98 1903, 1998 95 2000 25
- 90, 95 1890, 1995 105 2000 25
- 75 1975 1996
- 75 2075 2060
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- Selecting the Dynamic Edit Box option will present an edit
- box (or data-entry field) that converts a partial year input into
- a four-digit year when you move away from it by clicking on
- another entry field, selecting a button, or using a keyboard
- command. This edit box is designed to relieve data-entry
- personnel from repeatedly having to type all four digits of an
- input year.
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- YearIn is a freely-distributable $10 to $5000 shareware
- program by FileJockey Software, which can be reached by e-mail
- (71573.1023 @compuserve.com) or postal mail (289 S. Robertson
- Blvd., Suite 373, Beverly Hills, CA 90211). Registered users
- will receive the C/C++/Fortran/COBOL source code for this routine
- and the C++ source code for this edit box. FileJockey Software
- is also maintaining a list of year-2000 articles in YR2000.TXT in
- CompuServe's OAFORUM and PCPROG forums.
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- Files in YearIn.ZIP
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- README.TXT This file.
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- WHATSNEW.TXT Describes changes since version 1.0.
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- YEARIN.EXE Windows 3.1 program to demonstrate the year-
- conversion routine.
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- YEARIN.HLP Full documentation file in Windows 3.1 help
- format. This file can be run from the
- Windows 3.1 Program Manager and the Windows
- 95 Explorer.
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- YEARIN.REG The license-and-registration payment form.
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- FILE_ID.DIZ Description of YearIn to be used on-line or
- in catalogs.
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- VENDINFO.DIZ Contains vendor-distribution information in a
- computer-readable format. It also has YearIn
- installation instructions, much of
- README.TXT, and a copy of the license
- agreement. The first part of VENDINFO.DIZ is
- human readable, while the second part
- requires a program such as the free VENDVIEW.
- On CompuServe, GO ZENITH for this viewer as
- file VNDVUE.ZIP in Library 6.
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- To print this file from DOS, enter:
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- COPY README.TXT > PRN
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- This file is formatted for printing on any printer. (Ignore the
- characters at the left margin -- they tell the printer to advance
- to the next page.) To see this file on the screen, use an editor
- or enter:
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- TYPE README.TXT | MORE
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