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From: Uljanov Dmitry
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 99 23:02:31 +0300
Subject: Y2k troubleshooting...
Organization: [Team Golyanovo] [Team Moderator of MO.GOLYANOVO]
| Greetings to you All!
Version 7 dated 11/29/99.
Please supplement and provide information about other software. Amendments and clarifications
welcome. Netmail. I will periodically publish this table.
Differences in information about the software from the previous version are noted
> THAT'S IT! (quota sign).
You can forward wherever you want.
1. Mailers.
T-Mail 2606 and earlier - not ready (makes incorrect checkboxes when
netmail package),
2607 - ready (went through T-BETA* files).
Bink/+ 3.0 -- not ready, the fisken method is described.
Bink/+ 3.1 - not ready (freezes in March 2000), there is a patch binkpy2k.
Same for #26.
BinkleyTerm 2.60XE (current versions gamma XR6 and beta XH6) - ready
Argus (3.188 and above) - ready
Judging by the statements of RIT LABS itself, it is ready starting from version 3.131
The Brake! -- completely ready, starting from 718a13, the previous ones are ready at
Binkleystyle loge (cosmetics, in a word). But the author doubts it, that’s right
Are pkt-shki being formed - reports on fracking.
Sf-Mail v1.07g604 ready
"She doesn't suffer from the Y2K complex to begin with..."
G.P.Mail is ready.> FrontDoor works fine from version 2.25. They have on
> site written.
Xenia Mailer 1.98.05+ DOS ready
x-mail - ready.
KittenMail 0.09.5.W32 - ready.
KittenMail 0.09.6 - ready.
binkdnt-0.9.1 is ready
DVMMail. At least since version 0.830
ifcico 2.14 all modifications (os,tx,sc,ug,dev) -- ready
ifcico 2.15 -- ready
ifcico 3.0.cm.alpha-4.1 -- ready
2. Tossers.
"Moreover, fasteha 1.45 allows you to send letters from 2000, but to receive
can't. Squish (not Y2K) both sends and receives crookedly."
Fastesho 1.46 and newer - ready, but there are glitches in the packages created
non-Y2K-compatible software. This can be fixed by using PKTDATE (see below).
Squish/386 Y2K - ready.
Squish/2 Y2k - ready.
Earlier versions of Squish, including 1.11, are not ready.
Although 1.11 is suitable for pass-tossing, it is buggy only when tossing into databases.
SqWish of all versions does not depend on Y2K, I see no reason for concern.
(so the author said)
> I inserted into SqWish a date check in the incoming message to
> "100 instead of 00".
> This is probably the only place where my tosser can
> get rid of
> Y2K-unready software... - Autop.
Sqafix 99a7 - ready, earlier ones have not been tested.SqCC. The current one (0.96a5) writes the year in two-digit format, which is not entirely correct,
although acceptable in most cases. 0.96a6, beeping year in 4 digits
in the form of only an exe file is located at ftp://ftp.cronyx.ru/misc/marck/sqcc95a6.exe
sqpurge? Just launched in 2002. Purzhit.
Gecho 1.01, 1.10, 1.11 - not ready, 1.20 Pro - ready.
Partoss starting from 1.05.44 beta - ready.
Nice Tosser is ready, all versions.
Nice Tosser. ARA claims that he is ready for life. I vouch for version 1.00
Alpha 10.02
Imail 1.85 G 1. I checked it, it seems to work fine.
HPT 0.29 - ready
Regina-Tosser/2 v0.04b by Alexander Kryzhanovsky, 2:460/111@FidoNet
"Completely ready for y2k from the very first version."
> "Not ready, at least build 0352. Packed
> messages 2000
> in the timestamp looks like "0" instead of "00". Fasteha
> (probably not only
> it) for such packets yells "PKT contains data beyond
> logical end of
> file". pktdate skips without a twinge of conscience."
No problems were identified with the FMail tosser.
ZToss 1.71 and higher y2k-ready.
You can get it at http://basilisk.virtualave.net/soft
QEcho v1.3beta - Ok.
FIDOGATE 4.3.5 -- ready
also fidogate 4.2.9, 4.3.0, ... ,4.3.5
fidogate 4.2.9 is considered stable, and 4.3.X develop.ifmail 2.14 -- ready
ifmail 2.15 -- ready
CrashMail 0.52 -- ready, only cosmetic intervention needed - in the log
he only writes the last 2 digits of the year...
CrashMail <= 0.51 -- not ready - error when working with JAM databases
3. Mail editors.
GoldED 2.41 - Incorrect date in netmail and echoes (hudson) :(~
GoldED 2.42 - Incorrect date in echoes
Golded 2.50 - not ready (date 2036 shows as 1936).
Clarification - ready until 2036.
"Grandfather 2.50+ is perfectly compatible. It's all the tosser's fault."
GoldEd 3.00a1/W32 - ready
3.00.Alpha5+ - normal.
Golded 3.0.1 - ready.
Golded 3.0.1 asa9 was tested and no glitches were noticed
GoldEd 3.00b5/LNX -- ready
Golded 3.0.1/LNX -- ready
GoldEd+/LNX starting from 1.0.0 -- ready
> Nodelist compiler
> GoldNode/386 3.0.0 NodeList Compilet by Odinn Sorensen
> ready
FleetStreet 1.25.1.3 (BSL) - ready.
"A year and a half ago I tested 1.21 - there seemed to be no problems with it."
> "I can say for sure that at least since version 1.24 everything
> normal (I
> I know most of the code changes since this version, working with
> dates from this
> has definitely not changed)."
timEd 1.10 -- not ready, requires artfix03.zip or artfix07.zipPrevious versions are not ready and will not be available.
MsgED TE -- ready.
FtnEd 0.22b
MailEd (I don’t remember the version)...
MadMed 0.43
MadMed (current version 0.43i)
Goodwin - ready.
MS Outlook Express 5.0 - ready
QDed v1.3beta - Ok.
4. File processors.
AllFix 4.3 - ready.
AllFix 5.10 - ready
Allfix 5.13 universal - ready
Allfix v5.13.0004 - ready!
According to the author's website, AllFix is completely ready.
MNTic 1.02 - ready.
TicManager 2.14.55 - ready.
NEF, NEF/pk - ready. 2.44, anyway.
T-Fix 3.07 - ready.
DM Tic 2.01.28 - ready.
"DMTic 2.01.28 (latest version to date) DOS32 and WIN32 versions
will work normally... I didn’t test OS/2 because I use NT..."
King-FIX 1.00 (1.05?) and higher - ready.
protick 0.18.b13 -- ready
gtic 1.3.b -- ready
APtic 1.0 beta -- ready
FileFix Plus -- ready
TicScan 1.4 from 20-Nov-99 is ready (previous versions had cosmetic problems)
> FILin - As far as I can tell, the file echo processor is FILin
> 2000
> ready. Release 1.2 > I didn’t spend any time at all, but the release
> 1.3 for
> determines the age of files using the difference
> unix-time. - Autop.
> FastFIX 1.00 alpha 4 and higher - ready
5. Netmail trackers/packers.
Itrack - ready since 1.3/G7.1.3/G6 - not ready. In the @via klydzh after 2000 instead of the normal date
wild numbers are set that have nothing to do with reality.
itraX -- ready. 1.32 and higher - exactly.
MNTrack 3.07 - ready.
Ready since v3.06
MNTrack/LNX 3.07 -- ready
FTrack 2.04 - ready
FTrack 2.05 - ready.
Unimail 0.46b - ready.
All versions are ready.
UNetMail 0.93gamma ; UNetMail Gate 0.1beta - ready
NetMgr 1.0 is NOT ready, but is being patched, you need artfix07.zip for OS/2 version and
artfix03.zip for the DOS version (for the DOS version the artfix07 patch is more buggy).
Previous versions are not ready and will not be available.
> 6. BBS
> Maximus 3.01 - not ready, ready version (only
> exe files) is taken from
> www.lanius.com.
7. Other and auxiliary software.
safrouter-1.31; NodeLast ; T-Hist-0.27a3 ; BsoAn-1.0b - ready
The versions below are ready for the year 2000:
T-LAN 0.26/Alpha-4 and older
R-Post 0.06 from 20-Nov-99 (previous versions had problems with the date in PKT)
Unilog (log analyzer for T-Mail) - ready.
T-hist - ready.
KMStat - loganalyzep KittenMail - ready.
Utility: MQR 2.10 - ready.
Rules Server (collector of rules from echo conferences) Ready
FastUUE-0.13/W32 ; GUSH 0.4.1beta - ready
ABKill 1.5.5 (killing stale bundles by 2:5049/36) - ready
FTNUtil - ready.
PktMake is compatible.pktmaker (version 4.1.0/Beta/FW) is also ready
TXT2PKT 1.9 - not ready. The year 2000 is displayed as 100.
The one in the archive with T-Fix 3.07 is ready. The unfinished file has a file date of 02.22.99,
y ready - 11/07/99.
Msgpost 1.20 TE - ready. Earlier versions - no.
WIMM 1.31 (carbon squish) - ready.
GCreate 2.00.b2/DOS - ready.
PKT/MSG Viewer v0.23.Gamma (C) 1995-97 Moonlit Software/2 - ready
POST2JAM version 0.1 / (C) 1994 Timur Tsyganko - ready
> RAFAEL v2.55 build #10:
> ! The version has been checked for compatibility with the year 2000. B
> connections to this
> important corrections have been made to the source code of the program.
> So far only on http://www.rafael.spb.ru
> BMP v3.6 - Binkley Mail Packer, FIDO, Squish & JAM
> netmail supported
> Is BMP Y2K?
> IMHO yes. - Autop, Stas Mehanoshin (2:5030/172.9)
> GIGO - Gate FIDO-UUCP (latest version 0.99) - ready.
F.I.P.S./32 - unpreparedness only in the transition from 1999 to 2000
(spreading databases by date, etc.)
WinPoint '95 is ready.
8. Diff processors.
Nodelife - ?
> NodeLife 1.4 - ready. Since 2014 he writes "NodeLife
> is out of
> date".NodeLife 1.5 - ready
Qdiff - ?
Fastlst - ready
nlpatch from the ifmail 2.15 package - ready (versions earlier than this one were not tested,
but I think there won’t be any problems either).
9. Operating systems (although not FTN software, but necessary).
OS2 Warp 3.0 -
Fixpack 32 is dedicated to Y2K, in 39 there is an edit in Win - OS / 2, and only cosmetic.
The latest fixpack is 40 (if not the server, for the server 42).
“It doesn’t matter, there’s a separate patch there.”
OS2 4.0 Merlin -
"Fixpack 5, but better not lower than 8."
4 fixpack is dedicated to Y2K, separate fixes in 6, 10, 11.
Stable axle fixes - 5th, 7th, 9th and 12th. All of them except the 7th exist as
English and Russian. 7th - English only. Install any other fixes
Highly not recommended.
starting with the 11th fix pack, IBMers separated the drivers into a separate fix, so
If anyone decides to install the latter for themselves, don’t get screwed over it.
www.os2.spb.ru
ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/
Aurora is ready.
IBM PC DOS 7.0 - ready. It's called "IBM PC DOS 2000", I went through some
filehehe, mfe.dos, or what?
> PTS-DOS Extended 6.70 - ready
OS from MS.
The general impression is that almost everything requires patches, including Win95 of all releases
and Win98.
Patches at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/year2k/product/product.asp
Y2K information & patches for all M$ products
Windows NT, according to information from MS, is ready starting with SP4.To solve the year 2000 problem on Windows NT Server and WorkStation 4.0,
It is necessary to install the Service Pack version no lower than 4 (SP4 according to
Russian). MicroSoft specifically to solve this problem has released a separate
option SP4, which is ~ twice the size of a regular service pack. This
In addition to the actual patches for Windows NT, the package includes an IE version compatible with
2000 (IE40 SP1) and an ODBE version also 2000 compatible (not
I remember). Service Pack versions 5 and 6 (and regular version 4) solve problems only in
Windows NT itself, without touching IE and ODBE. All other products are not
being part of the system (the same BackOffice) must be checked and updated
separately.
Win98 SE - ready.
UNIX group OS:
Linux -
Kernel 2.0.38, 2.2.13 -- ready
RedHat 6.1 distribution - ready
This is unnecessary :) If 2.0.38 is ready, all subsequent ones are ready. RedHat did not call
Y2K problems have been around since version 5.2 (before I simply didn’t have it, but I think that
they work fine).
FreeBSD seems to be ready, with this small caveat
"After extensive analysis and testing, we believe that FreeBSD is
100% Y2K compliant. In the unlikely event that something has been
overlooked, we will do our best to fix it as soon as possible."
This is for Linux: (ready)
Crashmail/LNX 0.52 - tossilka
GoldEd+/LNX 1.0.0 - reader
ifcico-2.14os-p5 - dialerI’m not sure about filefix, because it’s generally a Perl script, but it should work.
All perl scripts work fine, sometimes you just need something purely cosmetic
interference when displaying dates in logs, etc.
10. Programs to solve the Y2K problem.
PKTDATE by Tobias Ernst - fixes PKT files made non-Y2K compatible
software, designed for fastehi. Went through AFTNMISC called
Y2KTOL32.ZIP.
ARTFIX03.ZIP (for NetMgr DOS)
ARTFIX07.ZIP by Tobias Ernst - patch for Netmgr 1.00 and TimEd 1.10, passed on
AFTNMISC.
CONTINUATION!
Differences from the previous version are noted
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http://www.goldware.dk/ - Golded
http://www.kaneff.de/~mike/fleetstreet/e/index.html - FLEETSTREET
http://www.lanius.com/ - Maximus, Squish
ftp://ftp.oeonline.com/pub/Maximus/ - Maximus, Squish & utilities
http://oeonline.com/~garyg/maximus - same name.
http://www.corbina.net/~maloff/binkd/ - Binkd
http://www.fhmail.spb.ru/ - FHMAIL
http://www.gpmail.spb.ru/ - GPMAIL
http://www.t-mail.spb.ru/ - T-MAIL
http://www.ritlabs.com/argus/ - ARGUS
http://www.t.uz/ - The Brake!(tm) Mailer
http://www.defsol.se/ - FRONTDOOR
http://bitbike.com/lentzdev.html - xenia mailer
http://sfmail.webjump.com/ - SF-Mail
http://the.wall.riscom.net/RIT/rg/sf-mail.html - Sf-Mail
http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~cmeer/ - ifcicohttp://www.average.org/ifmail/ - ifmail
http://www.gigo.com/ - GIGO internet/fidonet gateway software
ftp://ftp.gigo.com/ - GIGO FTP
http://www2.sbbs.se/hp/ramon/ - WATERGATE internet/fidonet gateway
http://www.hallertau.net/~olwe/fips.htm - FIPS
http://www.kvitek.com/fido/ - Sqafix & MadMed
http://osin.iasnet.ru/klug/ - T-Hist
http://multilog.webjump.com - MultiLog
http://www.softeq.de - FastEcho official site
http://bytepecker.webjump.com - GoldED+ by Alex S. Aganichev
http://nefpk.8m.com/ -- NEF/pk fileechoprocessor, Bink/+ 3.1 Y2K ready
http://home.nrh.de/~lbehet/fido/ - Fidonet over Internet
http://www.nrh.de/bbs/btxe/ - BinkleyTerm XE Homepage
http://www.chat.ru/~itrax/ - itraX homepage
http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/tobi/projects.html
Artfix 07 - patch for Timed and Netmgr
Netmgr 1.00
Timed 1.10
MsgPost (MPOST) 1.20 TE
Msged TE 05
PKTDATE 1.1
http://www.apworks.com/
FastLst, NEF & other from Alberto Pasquale
http://www.chat.ru/~ilbo/ - Filin fileechoprocessor
http://www.allfix.com/ - AllFix
http://basilisk.virtualave.net/soft - ZToss 1.71 и выше y2k-ready.
> http://www.rafael.spb.ru - RAFAEL.
> BMP - Binkley Mail Packer
> Последнии веpсии пpодyкта пpоходят по файловой эхе
> RU.SFMAIL, а также> are available on servers:
> http://sfmail.cjb.net/
> http://www.vioton.spb.ru/bmp/
> http://www.chat.ru/~gsf/
> http://sfmail.webjump.com/
> http://www.tichy.de - HPT
> http://fastfix.da.ru - FastFIX 1.00 alpha 4 and higher -
> ready
http://riddle.spb.ru -
T-LAN 0.26/Alpha-4 and older
R-Post 0.06 from 20-Nov-99
TicScan 1.4 from 20-Nov-99
http://www.fidonews.org/software/index.shtml#toc
A lot of FTN soft
ftp://ttown.com/pub/ - Fastecho & some other FTN soft
ftp://lansrv.mts.irk.ru/fido/fileecho/ - fileechoes, including FTN soft
http://collage.etel.ru/fileechos/ - fileechoes, including FTN soft
ftp://fido:fido@zorin.midural.ru
ftp://fido:fido@212.220.21.80
a selection of FTN files over the past few years.
ftp://happy.carrier.kiev.ua/pub/fidosoft/ - FTN soft
ftp://ftp.aladdin.ru/FIDO/ - FTN soft
And here is the address of an entire site dedicated exclusively to FTN software:
http://www.ftnts.id.ru. Everything is sorted into sections, provided with brief
descriptions and seems to be updated quite frequently. Even your own newsletter
yes. Very cute :-)
List of y2k-compatible fido-software + links to authors’ sites + opportunity
download -- to
> ftp://ftp.aha.ru/fido/y2k/111.html> http://victory.rosnet.ru/~koctya/y2k/
> "We kindly ask you to use the page only for
> information and download
> from ftp.aha.ru/fido (a significant part of the files are there
> additions
> will appear asap) or directly from the authors' pages. Channel y
> me
> weak."
http://www.cea.ru/~anton_julia/SOFT.HTM - Y2K FTN soft
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/year2k/product/product.asp
Y2K information & patches for all M$ products
www.os2.spb.ru and the link on the first page. Or
ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/ps/products/os2/fixes/ - fixpacks for OS/2
Hasta la Vista, All!
You can write letters!
D.J. Uljanov AKA 11:799/4@799net
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/ps: We install PKTDATE for fastehy 1.46 and Golded 3.0.1 only for the sake of Lara,
need to understand? It seems to say that they themselves are both “ready”. (?)
Best regards, Wladimi