Applix Spreadsheet bugs -- CORRECTION (was Re: tlug: Avoiding WINE)

[Matt Gushee <matt@example.com>]

Oops!

I may have been mistaken yesterday when I wrote about Applix
Spreadsheets that it was:

 > - changing my dates from European to American format without warning --
 > i.e., transposing month and day numbers that could have been either -- 
 > e.g. 03/12/98 -> 12/03/98. I found this horrifying (what other data
 > might it be mangling?), and it wasn't fixed when they released an
 > upgrade a few months ago. Hard to believe nobody told them.

I said this without double-checking; since this is a very serious
accusation to level at a spreadsheet, I thought I'd better make
sure. Well, it turns out I can't reproduce the problem now. What I
know for sure is that:

- it happened several times last year, perhaps under special
conditions that I don't remember now
- in their release notes for the upgrade I installed, there was no
mention of this problem; nor, in my brief search of the online info
about Red Hat's Applix distribution, could I find any indication that
anyone was aware of such a bug

So maybe they fixed it. I guess if my spreadsheet had a bug like that, 
I would want to fix it quietly, with as few people as possible knowing 
it had ever existed.

I'm sorry if I got anybody worried.

Matt Gushee
Oshamanbe, Hokkaido
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