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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: