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

[AEF]

On Feb 12, 4:06 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
wrote:
> On 2/10/2013 4:58 PM, AEF wrote:
>
> > On Feb 10, 9:57 am, Stephen Hoffman <seaoh... at hoffmanlabs.invalid>
> > wrote:
> >> On 2013-02-10 04:11:28 +0000, AEF said:
> >>> On Feb 8, 9:15 pm, Stephen Hoffman <seaoh... at hoffmanlabs.invalid>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> On 2013-02-06 01:00:46 +0000, AEF said:
>
> >>>>> On Feb 5, 10:48 am, Stephen Hoffman <seaoh... at hoffmanlabs.invalid>
> >>>>> wrote:
[...]
>
> >> Working with a key-value store � Python, perl, most any compiled
> >> language � really shows the weaknesses of DCL and the available tools.
> >> bash would be somewhat of a pain in the rump here, though awk
>
> > though awk . . . ?
>
> > BTW, does awk stand for "awkward"? (^_^)
>
> No!  It stands for the authors, Aho, Weinberg, and Kernigan!  ISTR that
> a VMS version is, or was, a VMS version.

I know, but I'm surprised I've never heard or read this one before.

AEF