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+
+AT&T Freeware Year 2000 Certification
+====================================
+
+This is the "readme" file for the freeware application which has
+been certified by AT&T Labs as part of the "Freeware Y2K
+Certification Project".
+
+DISCLAIMER
+----------
+ For its own internal business purposes AT&T Labs has
+ assessed various programs obtained from the Internet for
+ Year-2000 (Y2K) readiness that were not sufficiently certified
+ for AT&T's needs. As a service to the computing community
+ AT&T Labs is freely releasing this information to the
+ public as a series of "Y2K Application Updates", one update
+ for what AT&T Labs considers an "application".
+
+ For use outside of AT&T, AT&T Labs is not certifying this
+ information is correct, that any software, including repairs
+ and tests, will help others in any way, survive the year
+ 2000, nor work with current applications. Nor is AT&T
+ taking any responsibility for repairing any Y2K problems
+ that were overlooked nor repairing any bugs in any
+ "Y2K Application Update". All risk of using this Y2K
+ Application Update remains with the user who is expected
+ to test that this update meets their needs.
+
+ LICENSE TO USE
+ AT&T's intent is to ensure these Y2K patches are freely
+ available to the public but will not maintain a public web site
+ for their distribution. Any copyright claims only only apply to
+ the specific changes made by Y2K to the code. Any original
+ copyright holders retain rights to unchanged code. Wherever
+ possible patches will be returned to the current owner(s) of the code.
+
+ Owners and publishers are free to incorporate appropriate patches,
+ upgrades, and tests within legal future distributions as long as
+ they include the credit:
+
+ Various Y2K updates and tests provided by AT&T Labs.
+ Copyright 1999 AT&T.
+
+ and any AT&T "comments" on the changed code remain intact.
+
+ Any distributions of the updates must keep the entire update
+ intact, without any change, including copyright and disclaimer
+ information. If integrated with the original application items
+ not needed for an integrated release may be omitted. When
+ distributed on the same media as the original application there
+ must be no charge for this "Y2k Application Update".
+
+ CONTACTS
+ If you find any overlooked Y2K problems, or have other strictly Y2K
+ repairs for the software, please E-mail:
+
+ y2k@y2k.labs.att.com
+
+ This address is strictly reserved for the topic at hand.
+ AT&T makes no commitments to answer any E-mail
+ to this address. AT&T is free to use any submissions,
+ including publishing in future Y2K related release notes,
+ without payment or advance notice to the submitting person or
+ persons... appropriate credit will be given in any future
+ publications to the first person submitting something that
+ AT&T uses.
+
+
+======================================================================
+
+Perl ver - 4.036
+No. of Repairs: 2 Repairs
+Compilation of Patches Required: No
+OS Tested: Solaris 2.6
+
+======================================================================
+
+ORGANIZATION OF THE "Y2KFixes" DIRECTORY
+
+The "Y2KFixes" directory has been included in the archive to give
+you information about the Y2K testing that was conducted and their
+results.
+
+The Y2KFixes directory contains at least the following three files:
+|----> NOTES.y2kfixes -- Technical details about the Y2K Testing
+|----> Readme.y2kfixes -- this Readme file
+|----> Results.y2kfixes -- The results of Y2K Environment Tests
+
+The directory may contain additional files and/or directories, as
+appropriate to the application, to provide the exact snapshots.
+
+
+======================================================================
+
+INSTALLING THE "PATCHES"
+
+If you have downloaded a "patch", then you may install it as follows:
+
+ At the same level as the source directory, invoke:
+
+ patch -p < *.patches
+
+The patch file contains a header which has a manifest of changed files.
+
+======================================================================
+
+ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS:
+
+
+1) Extract the patches into perl-4.036 directory which is top level directory
+ for the perl4 source.
+
+2) cd to Y2KFixes.
+
+3) It will have y2k directory which contains regression tests for Y2K testing.
+
+4) now cd to ../t which contains TEST file for running this regression tests.
+
+5) run TEST, see the results & apply patches.
+
+6) Once you apply the patch, you need to run a shell script in x2p/find2perl.SH
+ which will generate find2perl.
+
+
+======================================================================
+
+SUPPORT
+
+See http://y2k.labs.att.com/freeware. There will be no ongoing
+support for the project. But if you have some very important issue,
+you may email us at: y2k@y2k.labs.att.com