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

[AEF]

On Jan 31, 12:38 pm, billg... at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:
> In article <00ACE32F.26E34... at sendspamhere.org>,
>         VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>
> > In article <kee28h$6e... at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaoh... at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> >>On 2013-01-31 14:13:55 +0000,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG said:
>
> >>filename=$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?

Well, I would have put in clarifying spaces:

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

Helps a little.

AEF

>
> bill
>
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