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Nina, thanks.  I'll dig that magazine out.

You hit the nail on the head.  The real problem in the end is that these 
selects are created on the fly from screen fields where a user types in a range 
of dates.  It really is a wonderful adaptation of what was available in the old 
Sys/36 world but never was designed to accomodate y2k.

In <36B7B299.AF1A2F9E@datadesigninc.com>, on 02/02/99 
   at 08:21 PM, nina jones <ddi@datadesigninc.com> said:


>there was an article in the latest midrange computing about those kind of
>sorts, and using forced fields.  some really cool ways to do it, with the
>yy field only.

>i don't quite understand what you want to do - like your example here
>would never happen, right?  (it would never be greater than 99, cause 00
>is next!)

>nj

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