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Ian Peattie wrote:

> As expected, everything happily ticked past time_t = 999999999 without a
> glitch. In fact, I'd completely forgotten about it until now.
>
> Anyone have/heard of any problems?
>
> --
> Ian Peattie                             ian@john-richard.co.uk
> Edinburgh, Scotland.

The document conversion utility, "filtrix" in Unix/Linux Wordperfect8
died after 9/10/01.  No fix announced as yet.  Here is an e-mail about
it from the cnews.corel.com!corel.wpoffice.wordperfect8-linux
newsgroup:

-Helene D.

-------Included Message-------
  Subject:  Re: document conversion Filtrix
  Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 22:12:10 -0400
  From: "Leon A. Goldstein" <metapsych@earthlink.net>
  Organization:  "Another Corel User"
  Newsgroups:  corel.wpoffice.wordperfect8-linux
  References:  1

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Here is a response from Blueberry about the Filtrix problem:

> Yes. We have been in touch with Jim Antoline directly. We have discovered
> an issue related to the Unix (and Linux) billion-second issue, which has
> affected the licensing portion of our filters. We are testing a fix for the
> problem, and will be coordinating a response for users with Corel, with
> whom we are also in contact.
>
> Kevin Dwan                      voice: 707-829-5443
> Blueberry Software              fax: 707-829-5380
>
> <http://www.blueberry.com>
>

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