154359Sroberto 254359SrobertoAT&T Freeware Year 2000 Certification 354359Sroberto==================================== 454359Sroberto 554359SrobertoThis is the "readme" file for the freeware application which has 654359Srobertobeen certified by AT&T Labs as part of the "Freeware Y2K 754359SrobertoCertification Project". 854359Sroberto 954359SrobertoDISCLAIMER 1054359Sroberto---------- 1154359Sroberto For its own internal business purposes AT&T Labs has 1254359Sroberto assessed various programs obtained from the Internet for 1354359Sroberto Year-2000 (Y2K) readiness that were not sufficiently certified 1454359Sroberto for AT&T's needs. As a service to the computing community 1554359Sroberto AT&T Labs is freely releasing this information to the 1654359Sroberto public as a series of "Y2K Application Updates", one update 1754359Sroberto for what AT&T Labs considers an "application". 1854359Sroberto 1954359Sroberto For use outside of AT&T, AT&T Labs is not certifying this 2054359Sroberto information is correct, that any software, including repairs 2154359Sroberto and tests, will help others in any way, survive the year 2254359Sroberto 2000, nor work with current applications. Nor is AT&T 2354359Sroberto taking any responsibility for repairing any Y2K problems 2454359Sroberto that were overlooked nor repairing any bugs in any 2554359Sroberto "Y2K Application Update". All risk of using this Y2K 2654359Sroberto Application Update remains with the user who is expected 2754359Sroberto to test that this update meets their needs. 2854359Sroberto 2954359Sroberto LICENSE TO USE 3054359Sroberto AT&T's intent is to ensure these Y2K patches are freely 3154359Sroberto available to the public but will not maintain a public web site 3254359Sroberto for their distribution. Any copyright claims only only apply to 3354359Sroberto the specific changes made by Y2K to the code. Any original 3454359Sroberto copyright holders retain rights to unchanged code. Wherever 3554359Sroberto possible patches will be returned to the current owner(s) of the code. 3654359Sroberto 3754359Sroberto Owners and publishers are free to incorporate appropriate patches, 3854359Sroberto upgrades, and tests within legal future distributions as long as 3954359Sroberto they include the credit: 4054359Sroberto 4154359Sroberto Various Y2K updates and tests provided by AT&T Labs. 4254359Sroberto Copyright 1999 AT&T. 4354359Sroberto 4454359Sroberto and any AT&T "comments" on the changed code remain intact. 4554359Sroberto 4654359Sroberto Any distributions of the updates must keep the entire update 4754359Sroberto intact, without any change, including copyright and disclaimer 4854359Sroberto information. If integrated with the original application items 4954359Sroberto not needed for an integrated release may be omitted. When 5054359Sroberto distributed on the same media as the original application there 5154359Sroberto must be no charge for this "Y2k Application Update". 5254359Sroberto 5354359Sroberto CONTACTS 5454359Sroberto If you find any overlooked Y2K problems, or have other strictly Y2K 5554359Sroberto repairs for the software, please E-mail: 5654359Sroberto 5754359Sroberto y2k@y2k.labs.att.com 5854359Sroberto 5954359Sroberto This address is strictly reserved for the topic at hand. 6054359Sroberto AT&T makes no commitments to answer any E-mail 6154359Sroberto to this address. AT&T is free to use any submissions, 6254359Sroberto including publishing in future Y2K related release notes, 6354359Sroberto without payment or advance notice to the submitting person or 6454359Sroberto persons... appropriate credit will be given in any future 6554359Sroberto publications to the first person submitting something that 6654359Sroberto AT&T uses. 6754359Sroberto 6854359Sroberto 6954359Sroberto====================================================================== 7054359Sroberto 7154359SrobertoPerl ver - 4.036 7254359SrobertoNo. of Repairs: 2 Repairs 7354359SrobertoCompilation of Patches Required: No 7454359SrobertoOS Tested: Solaris 2.6 7554359Sroberto 7654359Sroberto====================================================================== 7754359Sroberto 7854359SrobertoORGANIZATION OF THE "Y2KFixes" DIRECTORY 7954359Sroberto 8054359SrobertoThe "Y2KFixes" directory has been included in the archive to give 8154359Srobertoyou information about the Y2K testing that was conducted and their 8254359Srobertoresults. 8354359Sroberto 8454359SrobertoThe Y2KFixes directory contains at least the following three files: 8554359Sroberto|----> NOTES.y2kfixes -- Technical details about the Y2K Testing 8654359Sroberto|----> Readme.y2kfixes -- this Readme file 8754359Sroberto|----> Results.y2kfixes -- The results of Y2K Environment Tests 8854359Sroberto 8954359SrobertoThe directory may contain additional files and/or directories, as 9054359Srobertoappropriate to the application, to provide the exact snapshots. 9154359Sroberto 9254359Sroberto 9354359Sroberto====================================================================== 9454359Sroberto 9554359SrobertoINSTALLING THE "PATCHES" 9654359Sroberto 9754359SrobertoIf you have downloaded a "patch", then you may install it as follows: 9854359Sroberto 9954359Sroberto At the same level as the source directory, invoke: 10054359Sroberto 10154359Sroberto patch -p < *.patches 10254359Sroberto 10354359SrobertoThe patch file contains a header which has a manifest of changed files. 10454359Sroberto 10554359Sroberto====================================================================== 10654359Sroberto 10754359SrobertoADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS: 10854359Sroberto 10954359Sroberto 11054359Sroberto1) Extract the patches into perl-4.036 directory which is top level directory 11154359Sroberto for the perl4 source. 11254359Sroberto 11354359Sroberto2) cd to Y2KFixes. 11454359Sroberto 11554359Sroberto3) It will have y2k directory which contains regression tests for Y2K testing. 11654359Sroberto 11754359Sroberto4) now cd to ../t which contains TEST file for running this regression tests. 11854359Sroberto 11954359Sroberto5) run TEST, see the results & apply patches. 12054359Sroberto 12154359Sroberto6) Once you apply the patch, you need to run a shell script in x2p/find2perl.SH 12254359Sroberto which will generate find2perl. 12354359Sroberto 12454359Sroberto 12554359Sroberto====================================================================== 12654359Sroberto 12754359SrobertoSUPPORT 12854359Sroberto 12954359SrobertoSee http://y2k.labs.att.com/freeware. There will be no ongoing 13054359Srobertosupport for the project. But if you have some very important issue, 13154359Srobertoyou may email us at: y2k@y2k.labs.att.com 132