   Hello!

   I proudly present this patch for Proboard 2.16. This patch fixes year 2000
   bugs in this excellent BBS software.

   To patch your Proboard just extract pb216y2k.com to your Proboard system
   directory and run it. To discard changes run "pb216y2k.com /d".

   If you have already patched your Proboard with version 1 of my patch, run
   12.com to apply only new changes. (You may also run your old
   "pb216y2k.com /d" to return to original version of Proboard and then run
   new "pb216y2k.com").


   I think it's not good idea to ask money for bugfixes. Even for not my
   bugs. :-)  But I have spent too many time to make this patch. So, this
   patch is not free software. It is postcardware. If you use it and you
   like it, please send me a postcard:

                  Miha Ulanov
            ul. Planernaya 53-2-270
                 St.Petersburg
                 RUSSIA 197373

   Please, write message on this postcard manually and don't forget to mention
   your Fidonet or/and email address...



   If your Proboard works improperly after this fix or it still has bugs
   please inform me.

   And don't forget about postcard...


Technotes.

1. After applying this patch the year portion of DateType will not be in
   00..99 range. It will be (Current_Year - 1900). For example, the 8-Jan-2001
   will be DateType{8,1,101}.

2. When reading userfile years 00..30 are translated like 2000..2030 and years
   31..99 like 1931..1999. So, when year 2030 comes your Proboard will stop
   working. To change this threshold (30) just change byte at 00012AB3h and
   00012124 in proboard.exe and a byte at 0001571Ah in pbutil.exe.

History.

   A month ago I distributed version 1 of this patch. After applying that
   version user couldn't enter dates outside interval 1900..1999 (for example,
   in "show new files" function). Now it works perfectly like in previous
   technote (thanks to Robert Sterff).


                   Miha Ulanov (2:5030/926), sysop of Smiling Sun BBS



P.S. Call my BBS:  7-812-307-5176 (21:00-03:00 GMT)
   I'll be very glad to see you...

P.P.S. If you have other y2k buggy programs and want to fix them, you are
   welcome.