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Just to avoid confusion Front Desk runs on AAH Meditel System 5 but is an independently developed product which we (AAH Meditel) have never supplied or supported. I hope it's developers will address this problem soon.
System 5 on UNIX is Y2K complaint at the application level with all dates stored with a 4 character year.(We will be issuing an upgrade to make System 5 more Y2K friendly. This will ensure that manually entered 2 character dates default to 20xx. At present you have to enter 20xx to get a manually entered date in to 2K. Most dates are defaulted or calculated from the system clock and these will automatically be in the right century) SCO assure us that the version of UNIX (SCO OSE 5) is Y2K compliant. Xenix on which many System 5 user run won't cope with 29/2/2000, but a free patch is available and this will be issued by us well before 2000. The usually issues apply to PC hardware and we have provided detailed advice on this with a test disk to follow. (We expect that nearly all PCs supplied by us since 1/1/95 will be OK but many supplied before 1/1/97 will need a free flash BIOS upgrade)
Ewan Davis
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Beeby [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 29 January 1998 23:02
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: Y2K [was Untitled]
A specific example as requested.
Frontdesk appointments for Meditel system5 is NOT y2k compliant, even
though the core software, operating system and server are. Tried it out
with a Jan 2000 date, and it gave the day of the week as if it was the year
1900. Shame, because on a fast new Unix server it is one of the most
useful upgrades we have bought.
As users though, we will start having problems long before the end of Dec99
(unless we only book the day before).
Bill Beeby
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ahmad Risk [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 1998 6:12 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Y2K [was Untitled]
On 01/29/98 03:00:43, "Tony Allen" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> But again these are examples of bits of machines - I am asking
specifically
> about software, specifically Old software, resident and in use.
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