NOVELL TECHNICAL INFORMATION DOCUMENT TITLE: NetWare Client Year 2000 Fixes TID #: 2933241 README FOR: CLTY2Kp1.EXE SUPERSEDES: CLNTY2Kb.EXE NOVELL PRODUCTS and VERSIONS: NDS for NT 1.0 NDS for NT 2.0 Novell Clients ABSTRACT: If you are running the IntranetWare Client v2.20 for DOS/WIN or Windows 95, IntranetWare Client 4.11 for Windows NT, or the NetWare Client for 0S/2 2.12 then you are year 2000 ready. The only exception is if you are in a locale that displays the year first. These clients shipped with NDS for NT v1.0 & v2.0. There are no Year 2000 updates for the current released versions of the Novell Client. The Novell Clients are located at <@@http://www.novell.com/download,http://www.novell.com/download@@> Additional information is available on our Web site at http://www.novell.com/year2000 ----------------------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER THE ORIGIN OF THIS INFORMATION MAY BE INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL TO NOVELL. NOVELL MAKES ALL REASONABLE EFFORTS TO VERIFY THIS INFORMATION. HOWEVER, THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THIS DOCUMENT IS FOR YOUR INFORMATION ONLY. NOVELL MAKES NO EXPLICIT OR IMPLIED CLAIMS TO THE VALIDITY OF THIS INFORMATION. ----------------------------------------------------------------- INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: Requirements: 1) Hardware must be year 2000 ready (check with your hardware vendor) 2) Workstation must have the version of the client mentioned at the top of this document under the heading Novell Products and Versions For Windows 3.1x: Exit Windows and run the batch file INSTALL.BAT. (Or copy the NWLOCALE.DLL file.) For Windows 95: Run the install program, C32INST.EXE. For Windows NT: Run the install program, PATCHNW.EXE. For OS/2: Create a directory called INSTALL$.NEW under \NETWARE. Copy the OS/2 versions of NWLOCALE.DLL file into \NETWARE\INSTALL$.NEW and reboot. (When the workstation is rebooted, all files in the INSTALL$.NEW directory will be moved automatically to the \NETWARE directory. Existing files in the \NETWARE directory will be overwritten, and the INSTALL$.NEW directory will be removed.) MANUAL INSTALL: Rename the original file before replacing it. Before installing any of these files, please verify the specific file location. The listed file location is only a default and may be different on the workstation on which the file is actually located. The directory structure of the patch is arranged so that files in each directory will be copied to their respective directory on a client. For Example: \CLIENT\WIN3x\SYSTEM\NWLOCALE.DLL should be copied to a Windows 3.1x client local drive. The default path is \SYSTEM. Upgrading multiple clients: Use the Automatic Client Upgrade (ACU) process to set up your network so that users will be prompted to upgrade their own workstation clients when they log in. Windows 3.1x - See "Installing a Windows 3.1x Client" in IntranetWare Client for DOS and Windows 3.1x Supervisor Guide. ACU information is a subset of "Installing IntranetWare Client over the Network." Windows 95 - See "Installing the Client" in IntranetWare Client for Windows 95 Supervisor Guide. "Installing with Automatic Client Upgrade" is a subset of this chapter. Windows NT - See "Automatic Client Upgrade" in the Help for IntranetWare Client for Windows NT. DOS - DOS workstations can be upgraded using the ACU process; however, doing so is not recommended because not all features are available with the DOS ACU. See "Installing a DOS Client" in IntranetWare Client for DOS and Windows 3.1x Supervisor Guide. ACU information is a subset of "Installing IntranetWare Client over the Network." NOTE: These updates work with all localized versions of intraNetWare. ISSUE: None of the year 2000 issues addressed by this update pose any threat to the network or to data integrity. You should only install these updates if you are: 1. Using NWADMN3X.EXE for administration (The 16-bit version of NWAdmin). 2. In a locale that the year is displayed first, yy-mm-dd and you dislike the year only displaying one character for the years 2000 - 2009. 3. Unable to use the 32-bit version of NWAdmin (NWADMIN.EXE). Filename: NWLOCALE.DLL Problems Resolved: For Japanese and other languages in which the year within a date is printed first, only one digit is printed. The update enables displaying both digits (for example, 00-12-25 instead of 0-12-25). The problems addressed by this patch occur only with certain applications and utilities that were written using NWLOCALE.DLL and that are used in a locale (country) where the two-digit date format is yy/mm/dd. The particular problem identified was that in the years 2000 through 2009, only one digit was printed in the yy field. In locales where the yy is not the first field displayed in a date field, it worked fine with both digits being printed (that is, "00" for the year 2000). NWLOCALE.DLL is an older 16-bit library that was used only with Windows 3.1x utilities such as the 16-bit version of NWADMIN. It is used for backward compatibility to those older utilites on the newer client operating systems. 32-bit utilities do not use this DLL. In the file NWLOCALE.DLL, the API named NWLstrftime was updated to report the correct year after 1999. NOTE: A beta version of this file contained additional updates. Customer feedback indicated that because the updates dealt with issues starting with the year 2034, it was unnecessary to include them in the completed year 2000 update file. Self-Extracting File Name: CLTY2Kp1.EXE Files Included Size Date Time ..\ CLTY2KP1.TXT (This file) ..\OS2\ NWLOCALE.DLL 34960 10-7-1997 5:13:44 am ..\WIN3X\ ..\WIN3X\WINDOWS\ ..\WIN3X\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ INSTALL.BAT 301 12-11-1997 9:53:42 am NWLOCALE.DLL 43760 10-7-1997 5:12:44 am ..\WIN95\ ..\WIN95\WINDOWS\ ..\WIN95\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\ C32INST.EXE 40672 11-20-1996 5:41:54 am C32INST.INF 2048 12-1-1997 9:47:06 am NWLOCALE.DLL 43760 10-7-1997 5:12:44 am ..\WINNT\ ..\WINNT\SYSTEM\ NWLOCALE.DLL 43760 10-7-1997 5:12:44 am PATCHNW.EXE 147968 12-2-1997 1:38:22 pm PATCHNW.INF 358 12-2-1997 1:45:14 pm ----------------------------------------------------------------- Any trademarks referenced in this document are the property of their respective owners. Consult your product manuals for complete trademark information. -----------------------------------------------------------------