A traditional tool popular to many software developers and others is the Emacs editor. This editor is powerful enough to be used as an editing front-end for most of the tasks mentioned above. It is also extremely flexible in the way that it can be customized to any individuals specific requirements and likings. A set of small, but powerful Emacs extensions developed and used by GeoSoft is available for free at the Emacs Power Page . GeoSoft is not actively promoting services on the Y2K problem, at least not until Monday January 3, 2000.
All software contain bugs.
A potential Y2K bug will only be one among many. And you're even better off on this one since you know when to look for it. But even if GeoSoft has a relaxed attitude to the entire Y2K problem, a brief discussion of it follows. Years have traditionally been represented in software using only two digits. This is OK until you start using it for computations.