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Ian Mclaren , IT/ASD
With many parts of the Cernlib Fortran library more than 20
years old, it is not surprising that changes have been required to
fix Y2K problems. This led us to make the 2000 release on Tuesday,
November 30, so that we would enter the new millennium with a
conventionally tested version ready to meet any surprises in
Cernlib and its user applications. The 98 release had important
corrections to DATIME and the Zebra routine
RZDATE. Based on these new routines, more improvements were
made in the 99 release which was also tested thoroughly on the CERN
Y2K cluster in user applications, revealing serious problems with
HEPDB and FATMEN and formatting
deficiencies in a number of other packages. The final list of
libraries and packages affected by all these modifications is:
http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/asd/cernlib/index.html.
As priority has been given to getting Cernlib 2000 released,
there will be a short delay in changing the registration machinery
for the classic Fortran libraries. Checks have to be made that
commercial components do not slip through and agreement has to be
reached with some of our contributors for their products. We are
pleased to announce that we can continue to distribute
stdhep in binary form.
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