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- YEAR 2000 STATEMENT FOR BSD-GAMES AND BSD-GAMES-NON-FREE
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- The BSD games, and the Linux port thereof, come with NO WARRANTY, to
- the extent permitted by applicable law; see the disclaimers in the
- source files for details. These games are not suitable for use in
- mission-critical situations. The information given below is for
- information only, and the maintainer can accept no liability for any
- damage that may be caused by any defect in this software or inaccuracy
- in the statement below. (If you bought this software from a
- distributor, they may offer a warranty; contact them for any details
- of this, or if you want copies of any year 2000 statements on headed
- notepaper.)
- The BSD games are only one piece of software on a Linux system, and
- their year 2000 behaviour must be considered in conjunction with that
- of other software on the system; in particular, the C runtime library
- (including the math library), the ncurses library, the lex library,
- and the kernel, functions of which may be used at runtime, and the
- complier, binary utilities, make, yacc, lex and header files used to
- compile the BSD games. I can provide no information concerning the
- compliance of these components, or how any non-compliance might affect
- the compliance of the BSD games.
- To the best of my knowledge, there are no date-related operations in
- any of the BSD games, in bsd-games and bsd-games-non-free versions 2.2
- or later, which will handle the year 2000 incorrectly; please see the
- disclaimer above. Earlier versions are known to have problems; in
- particular, the game with the greatest date dependence, pom (which
- determines the phase of the Moon), may handle the year 2000
- incorrectly in earlier versions. However I cannot vouch for the
- accuracy of the algorithm used by pom over any particular timescale,
- and for accurate information on the phases of the Moon you are advised
- to consult the Astronomical Almanac or some other reputable source.
- Any further date-related bugs that are found and reported _may_ be
- fixed in the ordinary course of subsequent releases.
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