>While at a Year 2000 session, I raised the question of having the programs >able to read archived data. One participant claimed that the legal >requirement was only to have the data and that there was no requirement to be >able to read it.
I think you got bad advice. I used to work for a Canadian bank, and not only did we have to keep the data, we had to be able to produce it in a form capable of understanding by the courts. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html