[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I recently read some mail about the Y2K compliance problems of
> ARCVIEW. Sorry
> to ask for repeat mail (I should have saved it), but could someone
> send me
> information on this. Thanks.
Oh, I was just being facetious. MapInfo has the same problem, but it
won't affect your data. The revision date in a dBASE file (which is
the file format used by ArcView for data) is only 3 bytes long, with
the bytes in YY MM DD order. In this situation the year is limited
to the range 0-255. Since MapInfo's *.DAT file is essentially a
dBASE file in format, the exact same problem exists here too.
However, dates stored as data fields in either file will be fine for
millennia to come.
Also someone told me that the three Y2K bugs in the latest Windows
O/S have already been identified and cataloged by Microsoft. They
expect to have the fix ready by the first quarter of 1900.
- Bill Thoen
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