Hi, It sounds like a machine-specific problem. My PC-DOS 7.00 with the Y2K
updates, essentially similar to PC-DOS 2000 accepts the four-digit year on
all three computers on which I have it running. One of those is the
venerable old workhorse, Compaq DeskPro 386DX/25, upgraded to a 486 with an
Evergreen Technologies "Makeit 486" upgrade processor. This machine has
always been Y2K compliant and always demanded that date be entered in a
four-digit year format. Cheers for Compaq. On the system with the Cougar
Blue Lightning 486DX4/75 machine, PC-DOS works just fine, although I also
needed to run a Y2K fix utility in AutoExec.Bat to make the machine fully
Y2K compliant. The same holds true for the Everex StepNote 486DX2/50
machine with a Y2K fix utility running. On the Everex's other hard disk
with MS-DOS 6.22, I need to enter a four-digit year format in the date
string to get full Y2K compliance out of the DOS.
All these PC-DOS running machines return the date as being in two thousand,
and filedates in the directory show up as two thousand or as 00 in some
cases where the directory display shows two-digit years.
I was actually online, downloading a file when Midnight came on January 1,
and the 8.9 MB file was just fine, having been downloading for about 20
minutes before, and through to about 20 minutes after the rollover. It was
a slow connection night for some reason. My 56K V.90 modem was acting like
a 28.8 beast on a slow night.
The only Y2K bug I had was the one I'm still fighting, the ubiquitous flu
that has been running rampant all up and down the east coast of the U.S.
The Computers were and are just fine, as I knew they would be.
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