Y2KFix copyright 2000 Juan Paolo L. Carballo

Abstract
Y2KFix is a 250 byte year 2000 corrective TSR for pre-pentium 
era PC's with non-compliant BIOSes. It does this by hooking into the timer 
interrupt and staying in memory. From then on, all calls from the real time 
clock are checked for a date change of 19xx and corrected. 

History
You might think that it's way too far from December 31, 1999 to 
make use of this program. But try to estimate the number of units cranked out 
since the 286. Now don't say "Maybe a thousand or so are left", because BIOSes 
made in 1997 still were not compliant. I should know, I have an AMD 133MHz 586 
with an AMI BIOS and it did not pass the NSTL's YMark2000 test. Besides, the 
NSTL no longer has that test for download. Y2KFix is one of the utilities under 
the FreeDOS Project. The FreeDOS project is a collaborative effort to build a 
free Disk Operating System. When we say "Free" we mean free as in free to use
and not just free of charge.

Licensing
Y2KFix is licensed under the GNU GPL. We like to say it is copylefted rather
than copyrighted. This term awards the right for YOU to download the program
and it's source code, and to use the source code in any way you wish! This is
true provided that when a person gets a copy of this code and any enhancements
you may have made to it, he will also receive the same rights as you did.

Warranty
The author disclaims all warranties, espressed or implied, including, without
limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose.
The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which
may result from the use of this program.

Revisions
  Fri 02-04-00 10:28:36 jplc v1.0a -
  Optimized code file size = 364b 
  Decreased size from 432 bytes to the ff:
       Segment  Region       Total         Type
       0B15C       1           32    (0K)  Environment
       0DF47       2          384    (0K)  Program
       Total Size:            416    (0K)

  Fri 02-04-00 19:41:44 jplc v1.1a -
  Further decreased com file size to 
  309 bytes.
  Zapped the environment. 
       Segment  Region       Total         Type
       0E73E       3          384    (0K)  Program
       Total Size:            384    (0K)

  Sat 02-05-00 14:59:39 jplc v1.2 -
  Even further decreased com file size to 259 bytes. Then to 257 bytes. 
  Heck it's just the text now that's bloating it.
  Sun 09-03-00 03:55:43 jplc v1.3 -
  First release under GNU GPL.

DOWNLOAD
  Y2KFix version 1.3
    http://www.mydestiny.net/~jplc/archive/y2kf-1_3.zip 

Contact Info
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