


                            YEARIN 1.0 Quick Guide
                   Copyright (c) 1995 by David M. Wincelberg


                                   Overview

       This program demonstrates a routine that properly handles two-
       digit year inputs now and will do so in the 21st century.  For
       example, 98 converts to 1998 and 3 becomes 2003, regardless of
       when in the next few decades those numbers are entered.  Thus,
       YEARIN's year-conversion routine virtually eliminates the need to
       enter four-digit years in applications using this routine.

            This routine is supplied with YEARIN as a Microsoft C/C++
       small-memory-model .OBJ file.  It is also available in source-
       code form in case you need it for another memory model, compiler
       or type of computer.

            Even if site licensed, this routine is much cheaper than the
       $43,000 software product written about in "David Eddy Pitches A
       Software Savior To Century-Challenged" (Wall Street Journal, Aug.
       25, 1995, p. B1).  That product handles two-digit year inputs and
       searches for programs that require such inputs.

            YEARIN is distributed without a registration fee in order to
       promote other FileJockey Software products.  Please see the
       current list by selecting FileJockey Software Products from
       YEARIN's Help menu.  This list includes WRDGRB, which activates
       the mouse for the DOS screen, and SRLIB, which adds alphanumeric
       sorting to programs so that FILE_2 comes before FILE_10.


                              Files in YEARIN.ZIP


       README.TXT          This file.

       WHATSNEW.TXT        Describes changes since version 1.0.  Since
                           YEARIN is a new program, this file only
                           provides my e-mail address for suggestions.

       YEARIN.EXE          Windows 3.1 program to demonstrate the year-
                           conversion routine.

       YEARIN.HLP          Full documentation file in Windows 3.1 help
                           format.  This file can be run from the
                           Windows 3.1 Program Manager.

       RESOLVYR.OBJ        YEARIN's year-conversion routine compiled for
                           Microsoft C/C++'s small memory model.

       RESOLVYR.H          Header file for using RESOLVYR with a C or
                           C++ program.




       FILE_ID.DIZ         Description of YEARIN to be used on-line or
                           in catalogs.

       VENDINFO.DIZ        Contains vendor-distribution information in a
                           computer-readable format.  It also has YEARIN
                           installation instructions, much of
                           README.TXT, and a copy of the license
                           agreement.  The first part of VENDINFO.DIZ is
                           human readable, while the second part
                           requires a program such as the free VENDVIEW.
                           On CompuServe, GO ZENITH for this viewer as
                           file VNDVUE.ZIP in Library 6.



       To print this file from DOS, enter:

                             COPY README.TXT > PRN

       This file is formatted for printing on any printer.  (Ignore the
       characters at the left margin -- they tell the printer to advance
       to the next page.)  To see this file on the screen, use an editor
       or enter:

                            TYPE README.TXT | MORE


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