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

[Paul Sture]

In article <keeqdo$bv0$2 at dont-email.me>,
 David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:

> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> 
> > $ filename = filenameprefix+"_"+F$cvtime(,"COMPARISON")-"-"-"-"-" 
> > "-":"-":"-"."+".dmp"
> > 
> 
> Oh my, that hurts the eyes.  I've used the dashes in the past, but when 
> you're reading code and come to that, at least dumb old me cannot skim 
> past it had have any idea what's going on.  At a glance, I don't have a 
> clue what that does.

Not easy to scan, but for someone who has used the syntax to subtract 
substrings from strings, not hard at all to work through.

-- 
Paul Sture