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1 2AT&T Freeware Year 2000 Certification 3==================================== 4 5This is the "readme" file for the freeware application which has 6been certified by AT&T Labs as part of the "Freeware Y2K 7Certification Project". 8 9DISCLAIMER 10---------- 11 For its own internal business purposes AT&T Labs has 12 assessed various programs obtained from the Internet for 13 Year-2000 (Y2K) readiness that were not sufficiently certified 14 for AT&T's needs. As a service to the computing community 15 AT&T Labs is freely releasing this information to the 16 public as a series of "Y2K Application Updates", one update 17 for what AT&T Labs considers an "application". 18 19 For use outside of AT&T, AT&T Labs is not certifying this 20 information is correct, that any software, including repairs 21 and tests, will help others in any way, survive the year 22 2000, nor work with current applications. Nor is AT&T 23 taking any responsibility for repairing any Y2K problems 24 that were overlooked nor repairing any bugs in any 25 "Y2K Application Update". All risk of using this Y2K 26 Application Update remains with the user who is expected 27 to test that this update meets their needs. 28 29 LICENSE TO USE 30 AT&T's intent is to ensure these Y2K patches are freely 31 available to the public but will not maintain a public web site 32 for their distribution. Any copyright claims only only apply to 33 the specific changes made by Y2K to the code. Any original 34 copyright holders retain rights to unchanged code. Wherever 35 possible patches will be returned to the current owner(s) of the code. 36 37 Owners and publishers are free to incorporate appropriate patches, 38 upgrades, and tests within legal future distributions as long as 39 they include the credit: 40 41 Various Y2K updates and tests provided by AT&T Labs. 42 Copyright 1999 AT&T. 43 44 and any AT&T "comments" on the changed code remain intact. 45 46 Any distributions of the updates must keep the entire update 47 intact, without any change, including copyright and disclaimer 48 information. If integrated with the original application items 49 not needed for an integrated release may be omitted. When 50 distributed on the same media as the original application there 51 must be no charge for this "Y2k Application Update". 52 53 CONTACTS 54 If you find any overlooked Y2K problems, or have other strictly Y2K 55 repairs for the software, please E-mail: 56 57 y2k@y2k.labs.att.com 58 59 This address is strictly reserved for the topic at hand. 60 AT&T makes no commitments to answer any E-mail 61 to this address. AT&T is free to use any submissions, 62 including publishing in future Y2K related release notes, 63 without payment or advance notice to the submitting person or 64 persons... appropriate credit will be given in any future 65 publications to the first person submitting something that 66 AT&T uses. 67 68 69====================================================================== 70 71Perl ver - 4.036 72No. of Repairs: 2 Repairs 73Compilation of Patches Required: No 74OS Tested: Solaris 2.6 75 76====================================================================== 77 78ORGANIZATION OF THE "Y2KFixes" DIRECTORY 79 80The "Y2KFixes" directory has been included in the archive to give 81you information about the Y2K testing that was conducted and their 82results. 83 84The Y2KFixes directory contains at least the following three files: 85|----> NOTES.y2kfixes -- Technical details about the Y2K Testing 86|----> Readme.y2kfixes -- this Readme file 87|----> Results.y2kfixes -- The results of Y2K Environment Tests 88 89The directory may contain additional files and/or directories, as 90appropriate to the application, to provide the exact snapshots. 91 92 93====================================================================== 94 95INSTALLING THE "PATCHES" 96 97If you have downloaded a "patch", then you may install it as follows: 98 99 At the same level as the source directory, invoke: 100 101 patch -p < *.patches 102 103The patch file contains a header which has a manifest of changed files. 104 105====================================================================== 106 107ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS: 108 109 1101) Extract the patches into perl-4.036 directory which is top level directory 111 for the perl4 source. 112 1132) cd to Y2KFixes. 114 1153) It will have y2k directory which contains regression tests for Y2K testing. 116 1174) now cd to ../t which contains TEST file for running this regression tests. 118 1195) run TEST, see the results & apply patches. 120 1216) Once you apply the patch, you need to run a shell script in x2p/find2perl.SH 122 which will generate find2perl. 123 124 125====================================================================== 126 127SUPPORT 128 129See http://y2k.labs.att.com/freeware. There will be no ongoing 130support for the project. But if you have some very important issue, 131you may email us at: y2k@y2k.labs.att.com 132