At 15:20 04.07.1997 EDT, John wrote:
>I was wondering if anyone has any information about the Express 3 (?)
>powerpatch release which is supposed to include Year2000 compliant routines for
>MPE/iX 5.5 and is due in September 1997 (??).

I'm probably misunderstanding your question but if you are looking for the
new Date Intrinsics that have been discussed here quite a while ago (i.e. date
conversions and date operations) then you might find the XL and SYSINTR type
file on Jazz somewhat useful (haven't tried it myself so far).

>Also, as an additional question, I have just started testing MPE/iX 5.5 and
>have noticed a small (perhaps insignificant) difference with 5.0 With 5.0, if
>you enter a colon (:) at the CI prompt (top level), you merely get INVALID
>FIRST CHARACTER IN COMMAND NAME. If you do this on MPE/iX 5.5, it logs you off
>the system. Is there a reason behind this or is it a "feature"?

This sounds like the difference between READ and READX intrinsics to me (the
former takes ":" in 1st column as EOF marker, the latter checks for ":EOD").
No idea, though, if the changed behaviour on 5.5 is intentional or not.

Lars (just my personal opinions, as usual)