topic Re: Quick Geek Quiz in Operating System - OpenVMS

Quick Geek Quiz

Robert Atkinson — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:26:10 GMT

Here's a quick question to liven up you snowing Friday afternoon.

What filename will be produced from the following command :-

$ SEA *.COM "TEST" /OUT=[MYDIR]

Remember, no cheating allowed!!!

Re: Quick Geek Quiz

Uwe Zessin — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:52:03 GMT

Nice quiz. Too bad that I would have lost :-(

Consulting the online help gives a little more clue, because it tells that you can use /OUTPUT without a qualifier value.

Re: Quick Geek Quiz

Art Wiens — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:55:27 GMT

My guess would be, the filename of the first command file found with a match, and a .LIS extension.

Now I must try it ;-)

Art

Re: Quick Geek Quiz

Art Wiens — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:57:33 GMT

:-( no points for me.

Wrong again,
Art

Re: Quick Geek Quiz

Kris Clippeleyr — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:09:41 GMT

Robert,

What is cheating?
If the directory does exist, and the process has write access to it, I guess the file created would be SEARCH.LIS, otherwise no file would be created.

Kris (aka Qkcl)

Re: Quick Geek Quiz

Robert Atkinson — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:21:55 GMT

Cheating is trying the command before posting your answer....did you??

Anyway, for trying to be a Geek and having loads of if's and but's, I'm only awarding 1 point!! Everyone knows that none of the COM files contain the word TEST so no file would be produced anyway :-)

Rob.

Re: Quick Geek Quiz

Kris Clippeleyr — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:28:26 GMT

Robert,

Everyone knows that none of the COM files contain the word TEST so no file would be produced anyway :-)

I've tried the command (on VMS V8.2 Itanium). And even if the search string is not found in the COM files, a zero block SEARCH.LIS is created, and the message %SEARCH-I-NOMATCHES is displayed on SYS$OUTPUT.

Regards,
Kris (aka Qkcl)

Re: Quick Geek Quiz

Robert Atkinson — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:33:28 GMT

See, now that's the sort of 'Geekness' I'm talking about, but for pure persistence, 7 points!

Any further attempts to prove me wrong will lead to the forfeit of 50 points....

Re: Quick Geek Quiz

Robert Atkinson — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:34:25 GMT

Well done all, have a good weekend.

Rob.