SCO UNIX and Filepro 4.05

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On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 03:31:10AM +0000, Jay R. Ashworth via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > 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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