[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <paul.nospam-AE56D0.16322118112009 at pbook.sture.ch>,
> 	Paul Sture <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>> In article <7mia17F3i6h8eU1 at mid.individual.net>,
>>  billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
>>
>>> In article <007f2bc1$0$26892$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
>>> 	JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>>>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>> Actually, elevators do care about the date and time. They are programmed
>>>> to behave differently depending on day/time of week in large buildings.
>>>>
>>>> They have different behaviour depending on time of day, cater to
>>>> cleaning crews at night and on weekends etc.
>>> Time of day and day of week, maybe.  But year?  I doubt it.
>> I had a VCR which refused to do timed recordings after Y2K. The first 
>> one I had had no concept of the day of week so would presumably have 
>> been OK.
> 
> Yet another totally unneccessary item that had a problem.  It was supposed
> to be the end of the world and life as we knew it, not just a few missed
> Lost episodes.
> 
> Nothing that I used in everyday life either at home or at work had any
> problem at all when the calendar turned over.  I expect that was the
> case for 99% of the worlds population.
> 
> bill
>  
> 

Indeed!  The year rolled over and everything continued as before.  The 
whole Y2K thing was ultimately a huge yawn for most of us.