NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT

TITLE:  CLIB Update for NetWare 3.12 & 3.2
TID #:  2951913
README FOR:  LIB312C.EXE

SUPERSEDES:
LIB312B.EXE

NOVELL PRODUCTS and VERSIONS:
NetWare 3.12
NetWare 3.2

ABSTRACT:

This file contains the latest version of CLIB for NetWare 3.12 and 3.2.  This
new release of CLIB.NLM contains two fixes for Year 2000 (Y2K) issues.  Neither
of these year 2000 issues pose any threat to the network or to data integrity.



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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:

Before installing the new modules included in this update kit, it is
recommended that you make a backup of all files that will be overwritten.

1- Copy files to appropriate subdirectory (ea. CLIB.NLM to SYS:\SYSTEM\, and
NWSNUT.MSG to SYS:\SYSTEM\NLS\4\).

2- Re-load the updated modules or just restart the server using the console
command "RESTART SERVER".

ISSUE: 

This file contains a new version of CLIB.NLM and CLIBAUX.NLM. Two issues were
addressed in CLIB.NLM and one issue was addressed in CLIBAUX.NLM.

CLIB.NLM Issues:
    
1. The wrong day of the week is returned by applications that use the CTIME API
after February 29, 2000. For example, March 1, 2000 is a Wednesday, but some
backup software products using this API displayed March 1, 2000 as a Tuesday. 
If backups were set for every Tuesday, two backups would occur the week of
February 29, 2000. Backups made after Tuesday, February 29, 2000 would be off
by one day. This problem does not affect any application that uses dates in
numeric format, only those applications using the CTIME API that rely on the
day of the week.

Applications using the API STRFTIME with the %D  parameter return
the wrong date.  If the date is February 01, 2000, it return 02/01/100 instead
of 02/01/00.

Developers:
  These problems are seen with NLMs developed using ANCII C source code, with
the Novell APIs STRFTIME and CTIME.  These problems are seen only with NetWare
versions 3.12 and 3.2, and have not been observed in NetWare versions 4.x or
5.x.


CLIBAUX.NLM Issue:

1. Fixed a 4 byte overwrite of the stat structure in the routines stat() and
fstat(). This can only be seen on a NetWare 3.12 or 3.2 server. 


Self-Extracting File Name: LIB312C.EXE

Files Included            Size          Date            Time
..\
     LIB312C.TXT   (This file)  
       A3112.NLM         15906     2-11-1997     10:55:24 am
    AFTER311.NLM         16127     2-11-1997     10:54:58 am
        CLIB.NLM        355394     5-14-1999      9:41:48 am
     CLIBAUX.NLM          8717     1-27-1999      2:04:10 pm
     MATHLIB.NLM         12458    12-20-1995     10:27:44 am
    MATHLIBC.NLM         16832    12-20-1995     10:27:38 am
      NWSNUT.MSG          2984      4-4-1994      9:42:08 am
      NWSNUT.NLM        175546    10-17-1994      3:14:20 pm



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