FYI - SET_PFCMARK script

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PFCMARK was a gross hack which never should have been seriously considered.
Everyone should have been using 4-digit years and doing their logic based
on those, then simply truncating their display fields to 2-digit years.

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On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 01:53:31AM -0400, Brian K. White via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> Changing PFCMARK changes the meaning of data that's already been recorded.
> To me that means you should almost never change it. Once per career maybe,
> or only on new installs with no old data.
> 
> Really if it were up to me PFCMARK would have a special value EE or XX or
> something that means instead of setting the meaning of a 2-digit year, it
> throws an error any time a 2-digit year is encountered at all.
> 
> But I think it's bad advice to be changing pfcmark lightly or frequently.
> 
> -- 
> bkw
> 
> 
> 
> On 3/29/22 16:37, Richard D. Williams via Filepro-list wrote:
> > Here is a script I used on a Linux server to always keep PFCMARK 10
> > years ahead.
> > 
> > cat /usr/local/bin/SET_PFCMARK
> > YEAR=`date '+%G'`;
> > YEAR=$((YEAR + 10));
> > PFCMARK="${YEAR:2:2}";
> > export PFCMARK
> > 
> > I set it in /etc/profile.d/filepro.sh and in my rc.local file.
> > I used this syntax . /usr/local/bin/SET_PFCMARK.
> > 
> > Richard D. Williams
> > 
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