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The Y2k Starter Kit diskette is intended for those who do not readily have access to the Internet and consists of selected Free Tools (freely available for download on the Net), Procedures and Documents to enable Home users and Small Businesses to modify their systems for use after 1999-12-31.
This toolkit was built for the Y2kAFRIK project, to allow wide scale distribution by Y2kAFRIK correspondents.
This diskette is intended to support Y2k Awareness Day (1998-08-19), and is intended for use by individuals, PC Dealers, Schools and all interested parties.
The idea is to use it, copy it and give it to your friends.
The disk images and resulting bootable diskettes are intended for free distribution and copying, but are not for resale. Y2k Information must be freely available.
Comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome.
2. SLUG2000 is a Y2k "fix" program, written by Chris Anderson, that ensures that invalid dates are detected and corrected when booting a PC, and thus repairing machines with non-compliant BIOS components.
3. Essential program fixes for Windows 3.1, 3.11 and Windows 95
4. Text files (for printing) that describe procedures for testing, notes on making Operating Systems compliant and test reports on commonly used programs.
5. Fixes to convert DOS date to YY-MM-DD form and techniques to convert Windows to utilise the ISO8601 yyyy-MM-dd date standard.
6. VIEWCMOS program, written by Tom Becker, diplays the BIOS, RTC and SYSTEM clocks in real time. Allows you to check whether the value in position x'32 is 19 or 20
This file contains 2 builds, one for DOS and Win 3.1 and the other for Win 95, as well as GIF images for use on T shirts or other Awareness items.
Click here to download:
SA Site,
USA MirrorSelfextracting zip
toolk12.exe selfextracting zip file (-d mandatory)
1. execute "TOOLK12 -d" to build the TOOLMAST directory,
2. cd \toolmast
3. Insert of new formatted 1.4MB diskette in A:
4. copy *.* a:
5. Label the disk. If you have a colour printer you can
print file NYDSC4.GIF , otherwise print the contents of file label0.txt,
or write the following information onto the label
Y2k Cinderella Y2kAFRIK Project SLUG2000 Y2k Starter Kit v1.5 Computer Society of South Africa Distribute freely - Not for resale From DOS or MSDOS Window: 1. a: 2. install 1 (DOS, win3.x, OS/2) or install 2 (Win 95 and Win 98) http://www.cinderella.co.za Follow the menu instructions.This is the Distribution Disk and may be copied freely.
Installation from CD: From DOS or MSDOS Window: 1. d: (Where d: is your CD Drive) 2. cd \toolmast (TOOLMAST is the tool directory) 3. install 1 (DOS, win3.x, OS/2) or install 2 (Win 95 and Win 98) Follow the menu instructions.
The "Instal" process will unpack the executable programs and Menu items into the SLUG2000 Directory (with subdirectories TOOLKIT or TOOLW95 depending on OS) on the hard drive, and start MENU.
To return to the test and instal process after installation, cd \slug2000\toolw95 and type MENU.
You type MAKEDISK A: (with a new diskette in drive a:) to create
a bootable test diskette.
You never give away or copy the bootable disks.