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At 02:49 PM 5/6/98 , Buck Calabro wrote:
>One of the folks here was told by a software vendor that IBM had plans to 
>change UDATE from 6,0 to 8,0.  Has anybody else heard of this?  In my 
>infinite wisdom (snort) I dismissed this as preposterous, but I thought 
>I'd check on the off chance...

They didn't change UDATE from 6 to 8 digits, that would break 99.999% of
the software out there.

They DID create a new keyword *DATE that is 8 digits long.  Works fine.

david

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