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- Artware Year 2000 Survival Kit - List of Fixed Bugs for NetMgr
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- Revision 0004, released by Wilfried Brinkmann and Tobias Ernst.
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- Eine deutsche Beschreibung findet sich in NETBUGS.DOK.
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- The following bugs have been identified and are fixed by this patch:
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- 1. Fido *.MSG message files, *.PKT packet files, and Squish message
- bases (*.SQD files) specify a twenty byte text-type "FTSC" date
- field "dd mmm yy hh:mm:ss\0", where "yy" is a two digit year
- number. From the year 2000 onward, Netmgr originally wrote a three
- digit number such as 100 for 2000 in this place, displacing all the
- other fields one step to the right and resulting in the loss of the
- trailing \0 character.
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- This bug has been fixed in the case of the Fido *.MSG message base
- format in Artfix Rev. 3.
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- 2. In Rev. 4, Bug #1 has also been fixed for the Squish message base
- format and for *.?UT PKT files.
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- 3. The Hudson Message Base (HMB) also has a text-type date field. Its
- format is different from the FTSC date field in PKT files, but the
- problem is the same: Netmgr writes a three-digit year number from 2000
- on. Fixed.
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- 4. The %year token that can be used in bounce message texts was
- incorrectly filled in from 2000 on. In 2005 for example, it was
- filled in with "19105". Fixed.
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- 5. The Message Date that is listed in the message header that
- describes a bounced message was printed incorrectly from 2000 on.
- In 2005 for example, it was printed as "'105". Fixed.
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- 6. When a message from a Hudson Message base was read, a correct date
- field such as "00" was interpreted as "1900". This led to
- completely incorrect dates when the messages were written again. Fixed.
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- The following bugs have been identified but have not been fixed:
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- 7. Netmgr is not able to handle dates greater than "01/18/2038"
- because of a shortcoming of the Watcom compiler (the time_t was
- treated as a signed long instead of an unsigned long). This makes
- all message base formats unusable from 2038 on. Not Fixed.
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- With these fixes, Netmgr can now be used until 01/17/2038.
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