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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-01-31 16:32:44 +0000,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG said:

> Or, skip the myriad excursions through LIB$CVT_TIME and LIB$CVT_DTIME, and
> let DCL do one of the things it does best...
> 
> $ filename = filenameprefix+"_"+F$cvtime(,"COMPARISON")-"-"-"-"-" 
> "-":"-":"-"."+".dmp"

Yes.  That's definitely better than what I'd posted[1].

But you're not going to convince me that DCL is superior to bash here; 
that printf-style notation is just plain handy.

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[1] Pedantic: what you've posted does not produce exactly same output.  
It's very close, but not the same.

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