Amazon.com description: Product Description: This book gives you a step-by-step guide for everything you need to do to prepare for the computer problems associated with the twenty-first century. Feiler and Butler show you how to analyze your problem (and the problems of others that will affect you), how to set up a year 2000 project to manage the problem, how to track down problems in software ranging from spreadsheets and word processors to C and Cobol programs, how to choose your solutions, and how to test that they work.
Practical details are provided in three primary areas:
1. Description of the various problems: two-digit years, leap year, embedded microprocessors, etc.
2. Thorough analysis of business processes - accounting, marketing, production, etc. - and the types of computer systems involved, as well as the problems that affect them
3. Specific steps that can be taken to fix problems in programs - Cobol, C, C++, etc. - in productivity tools, such as spreadsheets, word processors, and the like, and software packages, including databases and integrated software
Programming techniques such as bridging, modification, and encapsulation are described. The book shows readers how to incorporate these details into a well-managed Year 2000 project, tracking the problems, attempted solutions, tests, and monitoring of performance as critical dates occur.

* Includes The Year 2000 Checklist: an appendix in spreadsheet form for use as a diagnostic tool to assist in planning solutions
* Features in-depth discussion of "Problems," such as two-digit years, embedded dates, data entry dates, and embedded limits
* Teaches readers how to accurately read and modify legacy code, including Cobol, Fortran, C, and Object-oriented Applications (Java and C++)
* Provides discussion of various "Systems" -- such as Payroll, Inventory Management, client databases, Internet, and LAN systems -- that are vulnerable to the Year 2000 problem, and how to plan, convert, and test solutions