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        !             2: AT&T Freeware Year 2000 Certification
        !             3: ====================================
        !             4: 
        !             5: This is the "readme" file for the freeware application which has 
        !             6: been certified by AT&T Labs as part of the "Freeware Y2K 
        !             7: Certification Project".
        !             8: 
        !             9: DISCLAIMER
        !            10: ----------
        !            11:     For its own internal business purposes AT&T Labs has
        !            12:     assessed various programs obtained from the Internet for
        !            13:     Year-2000 (Y2K) readiness that were not sufficiently certified
        !            14:     for AT&T's needs.  As a service to the computing community
        !            15:     AT&T Labs is freely releasing this information to the
        !            16:     public as a series of "Y2K Application Updates", one update
        !            17:     for what AT&T Labs considers an "application".
        !            18: 
        !            19:     For use outside of AT&T, AT&T Labs is not certifying this
        !            20:     information is correct, that any software, including repairs
        !            21:     and tests, will help others in any way, survive the year
        !            22:     2000, nor work with current applications. Nor is AT&T
        !            23:     taking any responsibility for repairing any Y2K problems
        !            24:     that were overlooked nor repairing any bugs in any
        !            25:     "Y2K Application Update". All risk of using this Y2K
        !            26:     Application Update remains with the user who is expected
        !            27:     to test that this update meets their needs.
        !            28: 
        !            29:     LICENSE TO USE
        !            30:     AT&T's intent is to ensure these Y2K patches are freely
        !            31:     available to the public but will not maintain a public web site
        !            32:     for their distribution. Any copyright claims only only apply to 
        !            33:     the specific changes made by Y2K to the code. Any original 
        !            34:     copyright holders retain rights to unchanged code. Wherever 
        !            35:     possible patches will be returned to the current owner(s) of the code.
        !            36: 
        !            37:     Owners and publishers are free to incorporate appropriate patches,
        !            38:     upgrades, and tests within legal future distributions as long as
        !            39:     they include the credit:
        !            40: 
        !            41:       Various Y2K updates and tests provided by AT&T Labs.
        !            42:       Copyright 1999 AT&T.
        !            43: 
        !            44:     and any AT&T "comments" on the changed code remain intact.
        !            45: 
        !            46:     Any distributions of the updates must keep the entire update
        !            47:     intact, without any change, including copyright and disclaimer
        !            48:     information.  If integrated with the original application items
        !            49:     not needed for an integrated release may be omitted. When
        !            50:     distributed on the same media as the original application there
        !            51:     must be no charge for this "Y2k Application Update".
        !            52: 
        !            53:     CONTACTS
        !            54:     If you find any overlooked Y2K problems, or have other strictly Y2K
        !            55:     repairs for the software, please E-mail:
        !            56: 
        !            57:             y2k@y2k.labs.att.com
        !            58: 
        !            59:     This address is strictly reserved for the topic at hand.
        !            60:     AT&T makes no commitments to answer any E-mail
        !            61:     to this address.  AT&T is free to use any submissions,
        !            62:     including publishing in future Y2K related release notes,
        !            63:     without payment or advance notice to the submitting person or
        !            64:     persons... appropriate credit will be given in any future
        !            65:     publications to the first person submitting something that
        !            66:     AT&T uses.
        !            67: 
        !            68: 
        !            69: ======================================================================
        !            70: 
        !            71: Perl  ver - 4.036 
        !            72: No. of Repairs: 2 Repairs
        !            73: Compilation of Patches Required: No
        !            74: OS Tested: Solaris 2.6
        !            75: 
        !            76: ======================================================================
        !            77: 
        !            78: ORGANIZATION OF THE "Y2KFixes" DIRECTORY
        !            79: 
        !            80: The "Y2KFixes" directory has been included in the archive to give
        !            81: you information about the Y2K testing that was conducted and their
        !            82: results.
        !            83: 
        !            84: The Y2KFixes directory contains at least the following three files:
        !            85: |----> NOTES.y2kfixes    -- Technical details about the Y2K Testing
        !            86: |----> Readme.y2kfixes   -- this Readme file
        !            87: |----> Results.y2kfixes  -- The results of Y2K Environment Tests
        !            88: 
        !            89: The directory may contain additional files and/or directories, as 
        !            90: appropriate to the application, to provide the exact snapshots.
        !            91: 
        !            92: 
        !            93: ======================================================================
        !            94: 
        !            95: INSTALLING THE "PATCHES"
        !            96: 
        !            97: If you have downloaded a "patch", then you may install it as follows:
        !            98: 
        !            99:     At the same level as the source directory, invoke:
        !           100: 
        !           101:        patch -p < *.patches 
        !           102: 
        !           103: The patch file contains a header which has a manifest of changed files.
        !           104: 
        !           105: ======================================================================
        !           106: 
        !           107: ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS:
        !           108: 
        !           109: 
        !           110: 1) Extract the patches into perl-4.036 directory which is top level directory
        !           111:    for the perl4 source.
        !           112: 
        !           113: 2) cd to Y2KFixes.
        !           114: 
        !           115: 3) It will have y2k directory which contains regression tests for Y2K testing.
        !           116: 
        !           117: 4) now cd to ../t which contains TEST file for running this regression tests.
        !           118: 
        !           119: 5) run TEST, see the results  & apply patches.
        !           120: 
        !           121: 6) Once you apply the patch, you need to run a shell script in x2p/find2perl.SH
        !           122:    which will generate find2perl.
        !           123: 
        !           124: 
        !           125: ======================================================================
        !           126: 
        !           127: SUPPORT
        !           128: 
        !           129: See http://y2k.labs.att.com/freeware.  There will be no ongoing 
        !           130: support for the project. But if you have some very important issue, 
        !           131: you may email us at: y2k@y2k.labs.att.com
        !           132: 
        !           133: