                        PFE And The Year 2000
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No explicit tests have been done on version 1.01.000 of PFE to see if it is
Year 2000 compliant, but to the best of my belief no problems will arise.

PFE does not offer date-manipulation features to the user in any form, so there
are no issues relating to how dates are typed or presented.

Internally, PFE's only use of dates and times is in determining whether files
that are being edited have been altered on disk by other applications. It does
this by using the Run Time Library stat() function to obtain the file's "last-
written" time as a binary value, and comparing with a value obtained when the
file was opened. Since the binary patterns are compared without interpretation,
no problems can arise.

PFE is statically-linked with the Run Time Libraries supplied with Microsoft
Visual C++ 1.52 (16-Bit Edition) and with Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 SP2 (32-Bit
Edition) but does not explicitly use any date-handling routines they supply.

January 20 1999



