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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <00ACE3EF.B07094D3 at sendspamhere.org>,
	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> 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.
 
Ouch...  Missed that one completely.  So, what we have is the same
symbol used in one statement to reperesent three separate functions.
Nope, nothing cryptic about that.  :-)

bill

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