Re: "Filibuster or just blustering" with -- MIDRANGE-L

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Dean,
> 
> Well, the space provided wasn't (quite) adequate for me ;-)!  We did have a
> _little_ problem with two programs (out of 500) that were calling one of our
> date functions with a numeric parameter of the wrong length (15,5 vs. 8,0).
> The fell over with a DDE on the RISC box, while functioning fine for _YEARS_
> on CISC.  A nit, but could have been a real problem had the source been
> lost...

  Actually I have had problems with date specific program as well during
conversions, but this is really not a CISC-RISC issue as much as a Y2K
conversion issue.  The problem crops up because two things are being
changed at once. (CISC-RISC and issues related to Y2K)

  - Larry Bolhuis
    Arbor Solutions, Inc
    lbolhui@ibm.net
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