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Date:      Mon, 3 Jul 2000 21:16:57 +0100
From:      Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To:        Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@skynet.be>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Weird Y2K bug in tar
Message-ID:  <20000703211657.C48373@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <3961d935.1250038@relay.skynet.be>
References:  <3961d935.1250038@relay.skynet.be>

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Bart Lateur wrote:

> It tried this command as well:
>=20
> 	perl -e 'print scalar gmtime'
>=20
> and it prints nothing!

Are you sure that's not just because it doesn't print a trailing newline and
your shell overwrites the output?  Zsh does this:

ben@magnesium:~$ perl -e 'print scalar gmtime'
ben@magnesium:~$ perl -e 'print scalar gmtime, "\n"'
Mon Jul  3 20:12:39 2000
ben@magnesium:~$=20

> My ISP looks to be running a very old version of FreeBSD: 2.2.6, dated
> Sept 6 1981.

1981?  Are you sure?  Where did you get that date from?  The simplest
thing for your ISP to do would be to update at least to 2.2-STABLE, as
some Y2K bugs might have been fixed there.  If not, they'll have to get
debugging, or just upgrade to 3- or 4-STABLE.

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Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D

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