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Source: Trevor Hemsley (Trevor-Hemsley@dial.pipex.com)
Moderator: Trevor Smith (trevor@haligonian.com)
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The OS/2 native newsreader Pronews/2 (formerly from Panacea 
Software) threw a few bugs when the year changed to Y2K. There are
now several methods of fixing the problems that ProNews/2 users
found.

Get the replacement ProNews.dll file to replace the offending code
with a newly compiled DLL from:

  ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/pn2_15b1_y2k_dll.zip 

Eventually this patch will be at:

  ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/news/reader/pn2_15b1_y2k_dll.zip 

This replacement DLL does not contain the spell checking code as the
source available to us does not contain this. This replacement DLL
should be used with ProNews/2 1.50B1.

Or, get the patch available from:

  http://www.tavi.co.uk/os2pages/oldsoft.html#ProNews 

and patch your existing DLL. This should retain the functionality of
the spell checker in your existing DLL. Two versions of the patch are
available, one for the DLL dated 10th May, 1998 and one for the one
dated 8th May, 1998.

Both fixes should be used with ProNews 1.50B1 only. If you currently
run ProNews 1.00 then your choices are upgrade to 1.50B1:

  http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/internet/news/reader/pn2_15b1.zip 

or put up with the bugs.

Bugs fixed by these fixes:

Replies to posts made in the Year 2000 will no longer show 
as being made in the year 3900.
Posts downloaded in the year 2000 will no longer be aged 
off immediately if aging is used.
Doing a Group/Refresh Newsgroup list will no longer ask for 
news newsgroups from the year 100.

The DLL replacement additionally makes ProNews respect the user's TZ
setting.
 
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