On 27 Jun 99, Automatic digest processor wrote...
> Hi all,
>
> While DOSes and Win 3.x are Y2K compliant, how about
> older apps like Lotus 1-2-3, WordStar, and dBase?
> Being abandonware, is there any third party Y2K patches
> available for them? If not, what option we have to
> replace them *without* upgrading the OS/hardware and
> rewriting the existing data/scripts from scratch?
>
Lotus 1-2-3 (even my old DeskMate version) and dBase both handle
dates well into the next century as far as the data is concerned.
Whether or not a word processor is compliant might not be an
issue (not much date-based work done there).
I am a bit concerned with this old Tandy though. It has MS-DOS 5.0.
It doesn't use a CMOS but uses a separate clock chip (SmartWatch)
which the Y2K testing utilities don't take into account.
One thing that bums me out is that my favorite database, PC-File 5,
is not compliant. Might have to move everything over to dBase or
some other db. Man I hate having to get rid of certain software.
Marc
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