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To: E.H.F. who wrote (1288)	3/25/1998 4:15:00 AM
From: Quad Sevens	Read Replies (1) of 9818

<<< To fix the problem you have to go through millions of (for the big companies) lines of code and recode the date variable with an updated version of COBOL (that's compliant) so you can do things like recognize four digit years and and do math with it. >>> Just want to make one thing clear: To talk about any version of COBOL as being y2k compliant or noncompliant makes no sense. COBOL is a programming LANGUAGE. It is the PROGRAMS written in this language that may not be compliant. There are y2k compliant programs written in old COBOL 68, and there are y2k noncompliant programs written in even the most recent versions of COBOL. Wade

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