/contrib/ntp/readme.y2kfixes

  1
  2AT&T Freeware Year 2000 Certification
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  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
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 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:
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101	patch -p < *.patches 
102
103The patch file contains a header which has a manifest of changed files.
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105======================================================================
106
107ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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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.
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1153) It will have y2k directory which contains regression tests for Y2K testing.
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1174) now cd to ../t which contains TEST file for running this regression tests.
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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.
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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
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