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From: Vince Scarafino <vscarafi@ford.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 15:13:40 -0400
Organization: Ford Motor Company
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References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l37jg$87j$1@wuff.mayn.de> <5l7jvt$q8b$10@halon.vggas.com>
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James Youngman wrote:
>
> In article <5l37jg$87j$1@wuff.mayn.de>, token@altair.franken.de says...
>
> >For example whatis dd gives "convert and copy a file". There you
> >got it where "dd" comes from, don't you?
>
> IIRC dd was going to be called cc ("copy & convert") but since cc already
> existed, it got called dd instead.
>
> --
> James Youngman VG Gas Analysis Systems The trouble with the rat-race
> Before sending advertising material, read is, even if you win, you're
> http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html still a rat.
...and I thought dd came from the OS/MFT JCL DD card, that was used
for Data Definition...