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From: JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman)
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: 12 May 1997 17:28:29 GMT
Organization: VG Gas Analysis Systems
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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.
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James Youngman VG Gas Analysis Systems The trouble with the rat-race
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http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html still a rat.