[Info-vax] Lame AUTOGEN message?

[Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply]

In article <mailman.13.1230876364.31861.info-vax_rbnsn.com at rbnsn.com>,
sms at antinode.info (Steven M. Schweda) writes: 

>         Current dump file is REX$DKA0:[SYS0.SYSEXE]sysdump.dmp
>         Current dump file size is currently 1891959.
> [...]
> 
>    "Current dump file size is currently [...]"?  Who writes this stuff,
> Lady Redundant Woman?

Maybe the "Current" refers to the current dump file, i.e. you could set 
up another dump file if you wanted to.  The "currently" then refers to 
the size which it has when the message is written (i.e. you might change 
the size later).

Maybe.  :-)

Having said that, "currently" is a word one can almost always leave out, 
since, unless something else is specified, the reader assumes that the 
writer is referring to the state of things when the words were written.
(I believe Ancient Greek actually had a separate tense to refer to 
things which were in the future when they were written about but which 
the writer knew would be in the past by the time the stuff was read.  
Closest analogy in today's world: the Hell's Angel with an embroidered 
message on the back of his jacket "If you can read this, the bitch fell 
off".)