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From: js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling)
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: 14 May 1997 14:31:36 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <5l9asg$geo$1@studs.sci.kun.nl>,
Frank Wijnans <frankwij@sci.kun.nl> wrote:
>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*
'dd' was made after a program called 'DDR' on IBM mainframes.
The full name of 'DDR' was "Disk dump and restore"
Joerg
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