They may still have a role to play in the conversion approach of certain applications where the number of calculations is minimal and processing of business originating in euro is not involved. You should contact these vendors directly to learn about what techniques apply in your environment. Some apply only to IBM MVS mainframes, some only to PCs. Join the euro2002 list, read it for a week to get the flavour of the discussions, then post a question there and stand back. Millions of spreadsheets will have to be converted from national currency units to the euro by the end of 2001.
Few companies are likely to have the IT resources to devote expertise to every single one.
Most employees will be left to tackle this themselves, possibly with the help of a converter. Patrick O Beirne highlights the traps and suggests some best practice. How to get the euro symbol in MS-DOS . Tell a friend by sending them an instant private email. We do not see this information.