Tracy,

You may want to contact DRA, the company that purchased the REX software, at
800-553-1202.   While setting the date on your development machine to 1972 will
allow the compiler to work, there are some issues whether the resulting programs
will handle dates correctly in 2000.   DRA was providing a new version of their
RL routines that had been made y2k compliant.  I tried to visit the web site
they had given me back in 1998 but it is no longer valid.
I'm sure that something could be worked out, perhaps at some minimal fee, to
bring your software up to date.  The people that I had contacts with in DRA in
the past are Dean Andrews and Mike Casale.

We also use REX extensively and decided to license the source code from DRA.  We
made the support routines y2k compliant and enhanced the date format, 'DF=', to
handle 4 digit date formats.  The original intent was to get some help from the
folks that wrote 'SPLash' and be able to generate native mode executables but
those folks have been too busy with y2k issues and that aspect of the project
has not moved much.

Regards
Paul H. Christidis






We use REX, the once-popular report writer, a lot.  Since the compiler can't be
taught to run past 12/31/99, we've decided to keep the date on our development
machine set to 1972 (nicely matches 2000).

Does anyone know of
a) legal implications?
b) a better way?

K Tracy Pierce, Systems Programmer
Golden Gate Bridge, Hwy & Trnsp Dist
P.O. Box 9000, Presidio Station
San Francisco, CA  94129
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