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

[AEF]

On Feb 1, 11:39 am, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> In article <kegoog$q9... at news.albasani.net>,
>         Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com> writes:
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> > Bill Gunshannon wrote 2013-02-01 16:44:
> >> In article <00ACE3EF.B0709... at sendspamhere.org>,
> >>        VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> >>> 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.  :-)
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> >> bill
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> > Hm, *2* functions (continuation and string manipulation), not?
> > The third is simply a regular ASCII "character" (could be any char).
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> 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.

Well, what character doesn't function as a plain character? Again,
check out what # does in Unix.

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> bill
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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.
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AEF - I'm voting for corn on the cob.