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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <00ACE32F.26E347FC at sendspamhere.org>,
	VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> In article <kee28h$6eo$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>>On 2013-01-31 14:13:55 +0000,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG said:
>>
>>filename=$filenameprefix"_`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`.dmp"
>>
>>
>>$ filename = filenameprefix + "_" + f$cvtime(,,"YEAR") + 
>>f$cvtime(,,"MONTH") + f$cvtime(,,"DAY") + f$cvtime(,,"HOUR") + 
>>f$cvtime(,,"MINUTE") + f$cvtime(,,"SECOND") + ".dmp"
>>
> 
> $ filename = filenameprefix+"_"+F$cvtime(,"COMPARISON")-"-"-"-"-" "-":"-":"-"."+".dmp"

Lots of snips here but I only kept what mattered.

What was it people were saying about Unix being cryptic?  I 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
was?

bill

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