Subj : REDATE2.ZIP
To   : Gerald Miller
From : andrew clarke
Date : Thu Oct 24 2002 03:56 pm

Wed 2002-10-23 21:12, Gerald Miller (1:342/512) wrote to andrew clarke:

 > I would suggest that you locate the REDATE2.ZIP archive, because if 
 > you're proficient at programming with C, the code is in the archive.  
 > Currently, it fixes the date for PAK, ZIP, ARJ and LZH files.

I missed the "C source code available" on the first read!  As it turns out, the 
source code is very DOS-specific, and not portable, so a lot of work is needed 
there, but you could then have a version that worked natively under 
Windows/UNIX (that would support long file names for eg.).

 > Now, if someone could fix the Y2K bug in the code.....

Resetting file date on TEST.ZIP to 10/24/102  14:57:50

Is that the only Y2K bug?  Just a display issue?  That's all I noticed.  I 
changed line 106 of redate.c to read:

((mbrdate >> YEAR_SHIFT) + DOS_EPOCH) % 100,

Resetting file date on TEST.ZIP to 10/24/02  14:57:50

I assume you didn't want the century to show (like the old version).  You can 
download the new source + executable from

http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~ozzmosis/redate2/

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