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Can someone suggest good resources on y2k in foxpro
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22/07/1998 05:20:06
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Miscellaneous
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00120060
Message ID:
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>please help!!!
>
> is there a year 2000 (y2k) bug with foxpro 2.0 , 2.5 ,2.6 ,3.0 or with 5.0
>
> what if the the programmer didnot keep "set century on"
> or if he is accepting 2 digits of the year while accepting date and
> the is processing or using in calculations
>
> how exactly the windowing technique of
>" set century ..rollover " work to avoid the y2k bug , is it a permanent solution ???
>
> I have in numerable doubts regarding y2k with foxpro can anyone suggest me good resources or documents on
> y2k with foxpro.
>
>
> any help would be deeply appreciated!!!
> thanking you

Yes, there is FP Y2K problem. SET CENTURY ON is not enough to fix this specially if programs had used 8 digit on @ say get pictures or formats(99/99/99) commands. However, in VFP 6.0 there has to be a good feature that automatically detects programs which are not Y2K compliant.
JESS S. BANAGA
Project Leader - SDD division
...shifting from VFP to C#.Net

CHARISMA simply means: "Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are in making them feel good about you."
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