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To: harrypolo who wrote (5316)	11/2/1997 12:03:00 PM
From: Bald Eagle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

<<Wiseowl....the problem, the REAL problem is in the applications which have to be rewritten line by line by line...an incredibly labor intensive situation which nothing less than manual labor will solve.>> Personally, I think the problem is much overstated. Admittedly each date which only has two digits for the year must be changed to four, otherwise the programs will create wrong and/or unpredictable results. However, there are automated ways to change every occurence in a file. Even the basic UNIX vi editor can do that. Of course, after that the programs need to be run and tested for occurences that somehow "slip through the cracks". It's a one time boom for Cobol programmers, but it's not a case of having to type key strokes for every occurence of the old date format. Oops, this is the SUNW thread. A positive for SUNW and other hardware companies might be that companies have to buy more test systems before putting new systems into production.