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

[AEF]

On Feb 1, 10:44 am, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> In article <00ACE3EF.B0709... at sendspamhere.org>,
>         VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
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> > In article <an1rlbFmbh... at mid.individual.net>, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> >>In article <00ACE3CE.7B1D7... at sendspamhere.org>,
> >>        VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> >>> In article <26ffeeee-ea3b-4baa-8019-b7aae9865... at l9g2000yqp.googlegroups.com>, AEF <spamsink2... 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- =... at SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
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> >>>>> > In article <kee28h$6e... at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaoh... at hoff=
> >>>>manlabs.invalid> writes:
> >>>>> >>On 2013-01-31 14:13:55 +0000, =A0 VAXman- =... at SendSpamHere.ORG said:
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> >>>>> >>filename=3D$filenameprefix"_`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`.dmp"
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> >>>>> >>$ filename =3D filenameprefix + "_" + f$cvtime(,,"YEAR") +
> >>>>> >>f$cvtime(,,"MONTH") + f$cvtime(,,"DAY") + f$cvtime(,,"HOUR") +
> >>>>> >>f$cvtime(,,"MINUTE") + f$cvtime(,,"SECOND") + ".dmp"
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> >>>>> > $ filename =3D filenameprefix+"_"+F$cvtime(,"COMPARISON")-"-"-"-"-" "-"=
> >>>>:"-":"-"."+".dmp"
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> >>>>> Lots of snips here but I only kept what mattered.
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> >>>>> What was it people were saying about Unix being cryptic? =A0I would
> >>>>> expect that most people could figure out what the Unix example
> >>>>> does, and Hoff's isn't too bad (although rather verbose) but just
> >>>>> how would anyone determine what the function of VAXMan's example
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> >>>>Well, I would have put in clarifying spaces:
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> >>>>$ filename =3D filenameprefix + "_" + F$cvtime(,"COMPARISON") -
> >>>>             - "-" - "-" - " " - ":" - ":" - "." + ".dmp"
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> >>> Bill will complain about your double negative now! :) :P
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> >>Not me.  Negative applies to numeric data.  All I see up there is
> >>alpha data.  This are dashes, not minus signs.  English, remember.
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> > I was joking about the continuation '-' and the '-' subtraction.
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> 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.  :-)

Well, let's see. What does # do in Unix? Why it's either tells you
what follows is a comment or when in a prompt what follows is a
command run with full super user powers!

Comment vs super user. Nice.

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> Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
> billg... at cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
> University of Scranton   |
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AEF  I'm voting for chicken soup.