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

[VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG]

In article <an1rlbFmbhuU1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>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.

I was joking about the continuation '-' and the '-' subtraction.

-- 
VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker    VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG

Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.