(Excerpts from a message dated 12-12-99, Fred Springfield to All)

Hi Fred--

FS>1)  Old Fixpak Rule-If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
  >    New Rule--     It's all broke, by definition.

....many deletions

FS>This, after going through my Warp Connect and Warp 4 systems from
  >top-to-bottom to make them Y2K ready.

    I didn't bother going through the operating systems.  I went through
my application programs (including testing the compilers!).  This is
where most Y2K problems occur, and no OS/2 FixPak will help them.

    AFAIAC, the old rule about FixPaks is still the best rule.  I an
running under Warp 4 FixPak 5.  I had already "fixed" the REXX Y2K
problem that was "fixed" in FixPak 5, with a home-grown
external-function DLL written long before I moved to Warp 4.  It turned
out that my DLL made the additional REXX "fix" in FixPak 6 unnecessary,
so (since FixPak 6 caused other, non-Y2K, ills) I backed out of that
one.  I haven't felt the need to do anything with later FixPaks except
to read the readme!  Of course, YMMV!

    Regards,

        --Murray

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