[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Michael Moroney]

"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:

>I had to point out that most modern conveniences; e.g. elevators don't 
>really care what year it is.  They just went on working.

>The hysteria though, had to be seen to be believed.  I encountered one 
>guy electronically who was trying to get Y2K certification for his power 
>cords!  I hope he was poking fun at the whole thing but I wouldn't be 
>too surprised if he was serious!

When I was in VMS Engineering, everyone had to go through their code
looking for Y2K issues, a couple of years befor Y2K itself.  Since I was
dealing with drivers at the time, and they really don't care what time it
was, I had little to do.  Most of VMS was pretty clean since everything
used either binary time or the VMS standard time format, which always
used 4 digits for the year.

>2000 arrived normally, the world went right on turning and most forgot 
>the sillyness!