[ale] y2k not a problem, what about sept ?

[Russell Enderby]

I don't believe this to be a big problem.  It used to be people would use
it as a end of file marker, although I do not believe it has been used in
quite some time.  (At least I dot know of anyone who ever used it for real
applications)

I have however seen it used much more in COBOL, RPG II/III applications.
These are usually not in unix but more on large scale IBM mainframes and
mini-computers.

If anyone knows different please speak up.
Thanks,
Russell

jj at spiderentertainment.com wrote:

> I was just thinking about programming, since I started as a programmer,
> and I came to the conclusion that Y2k is not going to be a problem for
> miedum size buiss, but what is going to be a problem is sept 9th....
> alot of programs, use 999 as the end of file marker.
>
> My question is, are there any linux programs that do use this method ?
>
> thx



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