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