Finally Started Y2K Project

[Richard Kessler]

Hope no one is further behind than I. 

Have spent two weeks just re-doing all the date sizes in the dictionary
and am still not quite done yet. The dictionary is only 28,000+ lines
long. Had some interruptions for other projects,,  We are under UNIX 
so are using PDL.  UNIX also has strong text searching, editing, and 
scripting capabilities - so that helps with source modifications.  

Found a number of cases where dates are embedded in other data 
structures, and found that the people that created some of our 
'sundries' [global reference] files used a technique
of declaring a filler of 120 characters in the record, then placing a 
number of differenet 'items' in the same place - at the same offset - 
in the record. Pretty messy.   We also have extensive code where 
the developers tried to solve the y2k problem on their own a long 
time ago by creating sturctured dates with a PHDATE and a 
CENTury value tied toghther into a single element.  Have decided 
to remove all instances of this and work off the 8 digit dates when 
century values  are needed.  Will have to remove the code 
references  as well.

Richard Kessler
71051.1106@compuserve.com
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