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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <26ffeeee-ea3b-4baa-8019-b7aae9865f6d at l9g2000yqp.googlegroups.com>,
	AEF <spamsink2001 at yahoo.com> writes:
> 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.

It does?  Sorry, I still see nothing but dashes and double-quotes.
I see nothing that would tell me the output was going to be a date-
time string.

Someone who is intimately familiar with theat particular function
would ikely understand it but then, the exact same is true of the
Unix example Hoff posted.  It is, as has been said at least a
thousand times, what the viewer is familiar with.  VMS people find
Unix cryptic and Unix people are going to find VMS just as cryptic.
Someone recently brought up the "english" aspect again.  Just what
in the example above is "english" other than the word "filename".

bill

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