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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-01-31 22:25, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2013-01-31 20:22, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> In article <keeb7i$e15$1 at dont-email.me>,
>>     Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>>> On 2013-01-31 17:38:45 +0000,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG said:
>>>
>>>> $ filename =
>>>> filenameprefix+"_"+F$fao("!19AS",F$cvtime(,"COMPARISON"))-"-"-"-"-"
>>>> "-":"-":"+".dmp"
>>>
>>> Yeah.  Or add the prefix and the underscore into the f$fao, as that
>>> avoids clobbering caracters in the prefix.
>>
>> And tell me how the above is not cryptic?  Just what is the difference
>> between the first dash and the second?  Or the third?  And would anyone
>> normal determine that?  :-)
>
> Maybe it would be more obvious with some appropriately placed spaces...
>
> $ filename = filenameprefix + "_" +
> F$fao("!19AS",F$cvtime(,"COMPARISON")) - "-" - "-" - "-" - ":" - ":" +
> ".dmp"
>
> Ie, remove three dashes and two colons, and then add something at the
> end. (Ignoring what's going on at the beginning.)

And my mistake, it should have read:

$ filename = filenameprefix + "_" +
F$fao("!19AS",F$cvtime(,"COMPARISON")) - "-" - "-" - " " - ":" - ":" +
".dmp"

That was, two dashes, a space, two colons, and then add some...

	Johnny

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