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AT&T Freeware Year 2000 Certification
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This is the "readme" file for the freeware application which has
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been certified by AT&T Labs as part of the "Freeware Y2K
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Certification Project".
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DISCLAIMER
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For its own internal business purposes AT&T Labs has
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assessed various programs obtained from the Internet for
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Year-2000 (Y2K) readiness that were not sufficiently certified
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for AT&T's needs. As a service to the computing community
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AT&T Labs is freely releasing this information to the
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public as a series of "Y2K Application Updates", one update
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for what AT&T Labs considers an "application".
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For use outside of AT&T, AT&T Labs is not certifying this
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information is correct, that any software, including repairs
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and tests, will help others in any way, survive the year
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2000, nor work with current applications. Nor is AT&T
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taking any responsibility for repairing any Y2K problems
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that were overlooked nor repairing any bugs in any
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"Y2K Application Update". All risk of using this Y2K
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Application Update remains with the user who is expected
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to test that this update meets their needs.
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LICENSE TO USE
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AT&T's intent is to ensure these Y2K patches are freely
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available to the public but will not maintain a public web site
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for their distribution. Any copyright claims only only apply to
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the specific changes made by Y2K to the code. Any original
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copyright holders retain rights to unchanged code. Wherever
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possible patches will be returned to the current owner(s) of the code.
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Owners and publishers are free to incorporate appropriate patches,
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upgrades, and tests within legal future distributions as long as
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they include the credit:
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Various Y2K updates and tests provided by AT&T Labs.
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Copyright 1999 AT&T.
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and any AT&T "comments" on the changed code remain intact.
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Any distributions of the updates must keep the entire update
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intact, without any change, including copyright and disclaimer
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information. If integrated with the original application items
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not needed for an integrated release may be omitted. When
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distributed on the same media as the original application there
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must be no charge for this "Y2k Application Update".
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CONTACTS
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If you find any overlooked Y2K problems, or have other strictly Y2K
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repairs for the software, please E-mail:
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y2k@y2k.labs.att.com
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This address is strictly reserved for the topic at hand.
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AT&T makes no commitments to answer any E-mail
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to this address. AT&T is free to use any submissions,
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including publishing in future Y2K related release notes,
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without payment or advance notice to the submitting person or
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persons... appropriate credit will be given in any future
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publications to the first person submitting something that
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AT&T uses.
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Perl ver - 4.036
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No. of Repairs: 2 Repairs
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Compilation of Patches Required: No
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OS Tested: Solaris 2.6
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======================================================================
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ORGANIZATION OF THE "Y2KFixes" DIRECTORY
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The "Y2KFixes" directory has been included in the archive to give
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you information about the Y2K testing that was conducted and their
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results.
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The Y2KFixes directory contains at least the following three files:
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|----> NOTES.y2kfixes -- Technical details about the Y2K Testing
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|----> Readme.y2kfixes -- this Readme file
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|----> Results.y2kfixes -- The results of Y2K Environment Tests
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The directory may contain additional files and/or directories, as
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appropriate to the application, to provide the exact snapshots.
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======================================================================
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INSTALLING THE "PATCHES"
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If you have downloaded a "patch", then you may install it as follows:
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At the same level as the source directory, invoke:
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patch -p < *.patches
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The patch file contains a header which has a manifest of changed files.
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======================================================================
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ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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1) Extract the patches into perl-4.036 directory which is top level directory
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for the perl4 source.
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2) cd to Y2KFixes.
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3) It will have y2k directory which contains regression tests for Y2K testing.
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4) now cd to ../t which contains TEST file for running this regression tests.
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5) run TEST, see the results & apply patches.
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6) Once you apply the patch, you need to run a shell script in x2p/find2perl.SH
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which will generate find2perl.
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======================================================================
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SUPPORT
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See http://y2k.labs.att.com/freeware. There will be no ongoing
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support for the project. But if you have some very important issue,
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you may email us at: y2k@y2k.labs.att.com
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