Re: FoxPro 2.5 date HELP!

[Christopher Davis]

try ftp.microsoft.com/developer/fox


"Ed Rauh" <edrauh@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:38c70437@news.devx.com...
> Yes, if you're willing to spend the money, Communications Horizons' Y2KFOX
> product will fix it without touching a line of code in most cases, but
> you're looking at spending $1K+ for it in network setting.
www.y2kfox.com
>
> "LeRoy Rodgers" <hlrodgers@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:38c55606$1@news.devx.com...
> >
> > DISCLAIMER: we are FoxPro novices.
> >
> > Our lab has inherited several Fox Pro programs which we use in v. 2.5.
> > We have had good success (in 1999), but now we have a Y2K problem.
> >
> > At start up our date is set as "today's date" 1999. If we go to the
> calender/dairy
> > and move the date to 2000, the program runs. But the application resets
> back
> > to 1999.
> >
> > Is there a fix for this!?
> >
> > Another question, is there an up-to-date application that will read
these
> > old
> > programs so that we can avoid these isues.
> >
> > Thansk in advance for the help!
> >
>
>

[Craig Dean]

I still support and maintain an SBT accounting system that I upgraded from 2.0 to 2.5.
I also did the Y2K upgrade on the complete system over halg a million lines of code. If
you still need help and have the source code for the apps please contact me at
craigd@connectedonline.net

LeRoy Rodgers wrote:

> DISCLAIMER: we are FoxPro novices.
>
> Our lab has inherited several Fox Pro programs which we use in v. 2.5.
> We have had good success (in 1999), but now we have a Y2K problem.
>
> At start up our date is set as "today's date" 1999. If we go to the calender/dairy
> and move the date to 2000, the program runs. But the application resets back
> to 1999.
>
> Is there a fix for this!?
>
> Another question, is there an up-to-date application that will read these
> old
> programs so that we can avoid these isues.
>
> Thansk in advance for the help!