SCO UNIX and Filepro 4.05

[Jay R. Ashworth]

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> From: "William J. McEachran via Filepro-list" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> To: "Filepro 2 List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 10:10:27 AM
> Subject: Re: SCO UNIX and Filepro 4.05

> Long ago I wrote a cron job to increment PFCMARK each year.
> I'm afraid that was 'good enough' for everyone whose filePro systems I was
> managing.

Yeah, but you can't really *do* that.

PFCMARK is *baked into* any data you store with a 2-digit year. 

If you move PFCMARK, you *break* any data whose 2-digit year it moves
across.  If you have to move it, you have to *sweep* all your files for 2 
digit years, and decide what to do with 1940 dates when 40 now means 2040.

And of course, the *right* answer is "fix the damn data fields".

Yes, I did that in 1998 and 9.  Yes, I know how long and hard it is.

Cheers,
-- jra
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