Re: FMTSRC

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Booth,

I should have a copy of the manual around here from days of yore...it's
one of the few I've kept....if you stay stuck I'll zing you a copy...it's
outta print as I recall...and I don't think it's on any CDROM.

Don

On Tue, 2 Feb 1999 boothm@ibm.net wrote:

> 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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