Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> Well, since you ask - here is a snippet from the headers of an email:
>
> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL34 (25)]
> Date: Sat, 1 Jan 100 18:22:07 +0200 (IST)
>
> And in the good old community tradition of snitching on friends, let
> me mention that Geoff Mendelson found a similar problem in slrn - ask
> him for details.
Mea culpa, the subject of that email was "... seems to have survived the y2k".
:-)
The elm fix was simple:
After the line in lib/getarpdate.c:
if ((year = curr_tm.tm_year) < 100)
year += 1900;
I added:
if ((year > 99) && ( year < 1999)) year +=1900;
Note that getarpdate included the function get_arapa_date. Arpa
may be dead a long time, but it lives on in source code.
Slrn was fixed by going to slrn-0.9.6.0-1 which required going adding
the latest slang rpm and caused another problem. Slrn added a "score"
file to automate killing articles, and would not start until you
created one. :-(
Starting it with the ignore score file option worked. To fix that
"feature" I had to create a score file from the example in the man page.
Geoff.
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