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From: frankwij@sci.kun.nl (Frank Wijnans)
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: 13 May 1997 11:05:20 +0200
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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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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JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman) writes:
>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.
I thought "dd" was from "disk dubling" because it is used mostly on /dev/fd*
etc.
Greetings Frank