[Info-vax] naming convention in VMS MAIL

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <pvquq5$lpg$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> On 2018-12-23 22:06:41 +0000, Hein RMS van den Heuvel said:
> 
> > On Wednesday, December 19, 2018 at 4:25:53 PM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig 
> > (undress to reply) wrote:
> >> VMS MAIL has files like MAIL$45870BB2000500B0.MAI;1.  The digits are 
> >> not random, but are related to (at least) the date and time.  What is 
> >> the exact format?  Has it changed in the last 25 years?
> > 
> > Hmm, I don't know why our friend Steve start to waffle about API's, 
> > opaqueness, performance and such. The question was highly specific. 
> > "What is the exact format". There is no suggestion Philips wants to do 
> > something useful with that. Perhaps just curious.
> 
> Phillip has a predilection for asking specific questions that are only 
> tangentially related to the actual requirements and issues.

Maybe, but not in this case.

> In this case, the only typical reason to be asking for the format of 
> the opaque filename is the creation of a tool to rebuild the mail 
> database, and tools for that already exist.

Then my reason wasn't typical.