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From: "Thomas M. Breeden"
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1989 17:03
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To: INFO-M2%UCF1VM.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: Logitech Libraries
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
In-Reply-To: <INFO-M2%89072813241202@UCF1VM>
Organization: Image Processing Cntr, Univ of Va.
Cc:

In article <INFO-M2%89072813241202@UCF1VM> you write:
>
>   Today I was working on a project that required the use of the Logitech
> DurationOps module.  I found a rather irritating bug.  When using
> GreaterOrEqual (called from LaterOrSameDate) the procedure rounded up a date
> that was at the end of the month to the next month and 0th day.  When the
> actual comparison was done (with a Day resolution) it discovered that the
> day of the rounded-up-month was less than that of the other date, therefore
> assuming that the rounded-up-month was less than the other date (which was
> not so).  It did not check to see that the month of the rounded-up-month was
> greater, and make the appropriate conclusion.
>   I have modified the source (so that it works) and can send it to anybody
> who interested.
>
>   Alex Bewley
>
>P.S. I also have modified the Directories module to permit recursive calling
>     of DirQuery - returning all DTA information - selection of the different
>     attributes of file to be searched for.

I would certainly appreciate a copy of these.

The compiler/link/debug cycle for the Logitech system is so slow (on my machine)
that I get really irritated at the thought that I might be having to deal with
their bugs as well as mine.

Any fix would be a great service.

       Thanks,

            - Tom Breeden
              tmb@virginia.EDU      -> Internet
              tmb@virginia          -> BITNET
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