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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-02-04 17:15, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <an88g6F66jaU1 at mid.individual.net>,
> 	billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>> In article <kemjhk$v46$1 at dont-email.me>,
>> 	Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>>> On 2013-02-03 21:04:06 +0000, Bill Gunshannon said:
>>>
>>>> Is TO.COM a DCL Script?  Can someone send me a copy?  If not, is there
>>>> a help or something for TO.COM that would tell me what it does?  Might
>>>> be fun to try and duplicate it. (assuming I don't find that there is
>>>> already someting to do this in Unix.)
>>>
>>> http://www.digiater.nl/openvms/freeware/v80/to/
>>>
>>
>> Thanaks, I'll see what I can come up with.
>
> Impressive endeavour.  I doubt I will be writting one for Unix.  Why?
> It is much more complex than what I originally thought and would take
> a good deal of time to design and code.

I have not even looked at it, so take my comments as they stand...

>  The fact that it doesn't
> already exist in Unix pretty much shows the lack of desire for a
> program to specifically do it.

Now, wait a minute. That's a very sucky argument.
By that logic, no new programs are needed, since they haven't already 
been done.
I don't buy that.

	Johnny