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To: Amelia Carhartt who wrote (23052)	8/14/1999 10:54:00 AM
From: Gary Wisdom	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 99985

MSB, yes, 9/9/99 is one of "those" dates. Considering how WCOM has been screwing things up recently already in Chicago due to Y2K problems, Sept 9 should be extremely interesting. It would be even more interesting if it fell on options expiration, but that would be just too much to ask for. <ggg>

To: Amelia Carhartt who wrote (23052)	8/14/1999 11:47:00 AM
From: TWICK	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 99985

MSB, Re; 9/9/99 (Can anyone back me up on this ?)- From what I understand programers used 9999 as and end-of-file and/or end-of-code marker. The date 9/9/99 could potentially be read as that and cause the program to miss-read the date as the end of the file, causing it to stop processing pre-maturely. I do believe that this is limited to older programing languages like Pascal, and Cobol if I'm not mistaken. Unfortunately, these ancient programing languages are still in use more than you'd think. Twick