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To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (1405)	8/8/1998 10:23:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2770

clever post. Can it (anybodies clock.bios.fix) change all that spaghetti fortran 66 code that drives the dec 20-20's running the license bureau in 28 States? I have an even better fix but I still cannot fix ALL that code. And all those 2 digit databases. And all those excel spreadsheets. I still cannot see how a OS patching board or intercept routine can tell a code fagment that does its own date calculations. How does the board know that I call some subroutine in a proggie that subtracts one date from another. I get a result. How does the board know that? And more importantly how can it know what my date formats are? I have to change the code itself. This is already done in many cases and is being done. That is a given. The problem remains that data entry code has to be reformatted.