We at Robelle Consulting are well aware of the issues surrounding
Robelle software and the various date simulation tools. Here is some
text from the upcoming What's Up Documentation newsletter which
addresses these issues.

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If you are using SetDate, Time Machine, or Hourglass to help you with
your Year 2000 MPE testing, then read on.

This year three new pieces of software were created for the HP 3000 as a
result of users needing to test application programs for year 2000
compatibility. These software tools allow you to set the date in a
localized manner, for a program or a session, without changing the
system date or rebooting the system.

The three products are HourGlass 2000 from Allegro Consultants, Time
Machine from SolutionSoft Systems, and SETDATE from Hewlett-Packard.

Robelle products employ very tight integrity checking which verifies,
among other things, that the system date appears to be correct.  Our
products ran fine with HourGlass 2000, but would not run with SETDATE
and Time Machine.

Robelle software has been changed to be more tolerant of SETDATE and
Time Machine's method of setting the system clock. This change is
available starting in the following versions of Robelle software:

    Qedit 4.6.02
    Suprtool 4.0.13
    Xpress 3.2.01
    Spell 1.7
    Xpedit 1.6
    SmartDate 2.1
    HowMessy 2.4.01
    Select 3.8

Qedit 4.6.02 is the newest production release which is being distributed
right now to all Qedit users on support.  Suprtool 4.0.13 is available
on demand as a pre-release version to any Suprtool user on support.

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Regards,
Mike Shumko
Robelle Consulting Ltd.


jim calkins wrote in message <[log in to unmask]>...
>Andreas Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> we bought Time Machine after a comparison to HourGlass.
>>
>> Reason: it's cheaper, much easier to handle.
>> Disadvantage: some 3rd Party S/W like Qedit cannot work with this (we
need
>>.....
>
>We've been able to use the exclude file Time Machine uses
>(TMEXCL.PUB.SSS) to get around the problem with QEDIT and other
products
>not running with a simulated date.
>
>We've also been able to start the product (ex: SUPRTOOL), then run Time
>Machine with the MPE prompt from within SUPRTOOL and have SUPRTOOL
>recognize the simulated date.