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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <kegoog$q96$1 at news.albasani.net>,
	Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
> Bill Gunshannon wrote 2013-02-01 16:44:
>> 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
>>
> 
> Hm, *2* functions (continuation and string manipulation), not?
> The third is simply a regular ASCII "character" (could be any char).
 
Ah, the wonders of english.  I didn't mean function in the computer
sense but in the language sense.
 The dash "functioned" as a subtraction operator, a continuation operater
AND a plain character.

bill

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