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