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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Old Style date entry
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 23:19:47 -0500
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At 11:00 PM 9/2/02 -0500, Laura M. Cooper wrote:
>Thanks Terry. Yours is a much more efficient work-around than mine.
>
>I do understand that most people would rather the dates be converted. I
>suppose it's entering all those dates from early New England town records
>that has finally gotten to me <g>. I do think, however, that entering a
>date followed by OS should convert to the correct double date. That it
>doesn't, I find curious.
>
>Laura Cooper

Hi, Laura:

Terry's method is not really a workaround, but an integral feature of the
program designed exactly for the use to which he suggests it be put.

The incorrect conversion is a different matter entirely, and to me is not
curious -- just *wrong*.

Darrell


Darrell A. Martin
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Addison, Illinois



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