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  README.TXT -- NOTES ON YEAR 2000 FIXPAK FOR IBM PC DOS 7



  This README.TXT file contains important information about the Year 2000

  Fix Pak for PC DOS 7.





  YEAR 2000 FIX PAK FOR IBM PC DOS 7

  ==================================



  PC DOS 7 customers concerned about displaying or processing date

  information after 1999 should upgrade to IBM's Fix Pak for PC DOS 7

  or to IBM's PC DOS 2000 product.





  Testing Your System for Year 2000

  ---------------------------------

  After you install PC DOS 2000, you should thoroughly test the remainder

  of your DOS environment to make sure dates are being processed and

  displayed correctly.



  If you experience a date-handling problem, ensure that your application

  programs and hardware are handling the date correctly before contacting

  PC DOS service and support.



  Contact your application program manufacturer to see if there are any

  known problems or an update available for your application program.  PC

  DOS 2000 cannot fix date handling problems that are being caused by

  application programs.  Only the application program manufacturer can

  correct these problems.



  PC DOS 2000 contains a fix for the "century roll-over" problem in some

  BIOS programs.  Your PC's BIOS may have other date-handling problems

  even with this fix applied.  Contact your PC manufacturer to see if

  there are any known problems or an update available for your PC's BIOS.





  How to Specify the Year

  -----------------------

  When you specify the year using two digits, PC DOS interprets 00 to 79

  as years 2000 to 2079 and 80 to 99 as years 1980 to 1999.  For

  example, 7/15/78 (in mm/dd/yy format) is July 15, 2078 and 7/15/81 is

  July 15, 1981.  To avoid ambiguity errors, whenever possible, you

  should specify the year using four digits.  For example, specify

  7/15/2078 for July 15, 2078.  PC DOS does not support dates before

  1980 or after 2079.





  General Product Information

  ===========================

  The following sections describe Year 2000.





  Product Year 2000 Readiness

  ---------------------------

  IBM has taken reasonable measures to provide accurate information

  regarding the Year 2000 readiness of this product.  However, you

  should be aware that information regarding Year 2000 can change.  IBM

  cannot guarantee that the information contained in this README is

  complete or current or that it applies in every situation.





  Year 2000 Ready Definition

  --------------------------

  "Year 2000 ready" means "a product, when used in accordance with its

  associated documentation, is capable of correctly processing,

  providing and/or receiving date data within and between the 20th and

  21st centuries, provided that all products (for example, hardware,

  software and firmware) used with the product properly exchange

  accurate date data with it."





  IBM Position on the Readiness of this Product

  ---------------------------------------------

  Information on the Year 2000 ready status of this product applies to

  this product only.



  By providing this data, IBM is not performing a Year 2000 assessment

  or conversion.  You are solely responsible for the implementation of

  your Year 2000 project and IBM does not guarantee your results.



  You are solely responsible for the installation and implementation of

  any Product Temporary Fix, Customer Service Diskette(s) or other

  related Year 2000 modification required for an IBM product to be

  considered Year 2000 Ready.  IBM shall not in any way be responsible

  for your failure to apply such correction.



  IBM's obligations and responsibilities regarding IBM products are

  governed solely by the agreements under which they are sold or

  licensed.





  Installation

  ============

  To install this Fix Pak, you will need:



              - IBM PC DOS 7 installed on your system

              - 2M bytes of free space on your system's Drive C:

              - a formatted 1.44 MB diskette



  Install Part 1

  --------------

      Create a Fix Pak diskette by following these steps:



      1. Receive a language-specific PC DOS 7 Fix Pak file from IBM.

         The file name is in the form DOS7xxY2.EXE where "xx" is the

         language version of your installed PC DOS 7 as shown

         below.



                  BR = Brazilian     PO = Portuguese

                  DK = Danish        RU = Russian

                  FR = French        SP = Spanish

                  GR = German        SU = Finnish

                  IT = Italian       SV = Swedish

                  NL = Dutch         US = English - USA and United Kingdom

                  NO = Norwegian



         See README.JP for installation instructions for the Japanese Fix Pak

         (CSD PC DOS J 7.00C/V); the following is not applicable.



      2. Place a formatted 1.44MB diskette into Drive A:



      3. From a DOS command prompt, enter:



                  DOS7xxY2 A:



         Where "xx" is the two letter language code from the list above.



         For example, to create an English version Fix Pak diskette in

         drive A: you would enter:



                  DOS7USY2 A:



      4. Label this diskette "PC DOS 7 Year 2000 Fix Pak"



  Install Part 2

  --------------

      To install the Fix Pak, follow these steps:



      1. IBM PC DOS 7 should already be installed on your system.



      2. Insert the "PC DOS 7 Year 2000 Fix Pak" diskette into Drive A:



      3. From a DOS command prompt, enter:



                          A:UPDATE drive:



         Where "drive:" is the drive where PC DOS 7 is installed.

         This is an optional parameter and defaults to drive C:



         This program may take several minutes to update your system.



      4. Remove the Year 2000 Fix Pak diskette from Drive A:



         The update is now complete.





  Eurocurrency Symbol Support

  ===========================



  PC DOS provides support for the new Eurocurrency symbol defined by

  the European Community as part of the European Monetary Union (EMU).

  The symbol is provided in code page 850 at offset 0xD5.  You can

  invoke the symbol through the keyboard by using the same AltGr or

  AltCar + character key sequence that is used for many other

  country-specific symbols (the AltGr and AltCar keys are the same as

  the right-hand Alt key).  For additional information, see the

  "Multiple Characters on a Key" section in the PC DOS 7 Keyboards and

  Code Pages book which is sold separately.  The table below shows the

  particular key sequence for each country supported.



  The symbol comes in 8x8, 8x14 and 8x16 pixel resolutions in code page

  850 in both the EGA.CPI and EGAX.CPI code page information files, and

  in 8x16 pixel resolution in code page 850 in the ISO.CPI file.  These

  CPI files are specified in the MODE command that is placed in the

  AUTOEXEC.BAT file by SETUP.



  SETUP automatically installs the Eurocurrency symbol support for

  the countries listed in the following table.  The support is activated

  in the same way that code page 850 support is activated, as the

  following examples shows.



  Note:  These examples assume PC DOS has been installed in the \DOS

  directory on your hard disk.  For additional information see the

  section "Customizing Keyboards for International Use" and the specific

  commands in the PC DOS 7 Command Reference and Error Messages book.



  1) When you install any keyboard or country other than the default

     U.S., SETUP adds a command to the CONFIG.SYS file to allocate a

     buffer for the code page:



          DEVICE=C:\DOS\DISPLAY.SYS CON=(,,1)



  2) Commands are also added to AUTOEXEC.BAT to load, prepare and select

     the code page:



          MODE CON CP PREP=((850) C:\DOS\xxx.CPI)

          