[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

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In article <26ffeeee-ea3b-4baa-8019-b7aae9865f6d at l9g2000yqp.googlegroups.com>, AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes:
>On Jan 31, 12:38=A0pm, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
>> In article <00ACE32F.26E34... at sendspamhere.org>,
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 VAXman- =A0 at SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>>
>> > In article <kee28h$6e... at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaoh... at hoff=
>manlabs.invalid> writes:
>> >>On 2013-01-31 14:13:55 +0000, =A0 VAXman- =A0 at SendSpamHere.ORG said:
>>
>> >>filename=3D$filenameprefix"_`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`.dmp"
>>
>> >>$ filename =3D filenameprefix + "_" + f$cvtime(,,"YEAR") +
>> >>f$cvtime(,,"MONTH") + f$cvtime(,,"DAY") + f$cvtime(,,"HOUR") +
>> >>f$cvtime(,,"MINUTE") + f$cvtime(,,"SECOND") + ".dmp"
>>
>> > $ filename =3D filenameprefix+"_"+F$cvtime(,"COMPARISON")-"-"-"-"-" "-"=
>:"-":"-"."+".dmp"
>>
>> Lots of snips here but I only kept what mattered.
>>
>> What was it people were saying about Unix being cryptic? =A0I would
>> expect that most people could figure out what the Unix example
>> does, and Hoff's isn't too bad (although rather verbose) but just
>> how would anyone determine what the function of VAXMan's example
>> was?
>
>Well, I would have put in clarifying spaces:
>
>$ filename =3D filenameprefix + "_" + F$cvtime(,"COMPARISON") -
>             - "-" - "-" - " " - ":" - ":" - "." + ".dmp"

Bill will complain about your double negative now! :) :P

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