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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <00ACE3CE.7B1D7841 at sendspamhere.org>,
	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> 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

Not me.  Negative applies to numeric data.  All I see up there is
alpha data.  This are dashes, not minus signs.  English, remember.

bill


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