[HECnet] Future problems?

Paul_Koning at Dell.com Paul_Koning at Dell.com
Fri Jul 15 10:10:15 PDT 2016


> On Jul 15, 2016, at 12:59 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> ...
> FLX accessing DOS tapes will "fail" at 2035.

That figures, because the RSTS date format was taken from DOS-11.  I assume you meant magtape; DECtape runs into trouble in 2002 because there the date is only 15 bits (the sign bit is used to mark a contiguous file).

	paul



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