Hello PCSOFT readers

In light of the recent messages about the Year 2000 (Y2K) problem that
appeared on PCSOFT, I thought you might be interested that Microsoft
has released a new Y2K update for Win95.

The problem is that the DIR command displays file dates using only two
digits to represent the year. When you use the DATE command to set the
current date and you type the year as only two digits, after 01-01-2000
the DATE command will display the error message "Incorrect date format."
In addition, File Manager displays an incorrect date for files created
with a date of 01-01-2000 or later. This is documented in the Knowledge
Base Article "Windows 95 Year 2000 Problems with DATE and DIR Commands"
at <http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q182/9/67.asp>.

This article describes the new fix Win95y2k.exe, 258696 bytes, which will
replace the command.com in all versions of Win95.
<http://support.microsoft.com/download/support/mslfiles/Win95y2k.exe>

If you have Win95 or Win95a, you will get a new command.com dated 3/23/98
9:51am, 93,034 bytes. If you have Win95b (OSR2, OSR 2.1, or OSR 2.5) you
will get a command.com dated 3/23/98 11:12am, 93,974 bytes.

These new command.com files provide the following functionality:
The DIR command displays file dates using four digits for the year if you
use the /4 command-line switch (for example, "dir /4").
The DATE command accepts two-digit values from 00 through 79, interpreting
these values as the four-digit values from 2000 through 2079.

Regards,
Bill