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From: Donovan Ready <dready@jumpnet.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: Wed, 14 May 1997 14:53:13 -0500
Organization: Lindsay Computer Systems
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Tom Rogie wrote:
>
> On 13 May 1997 11:05:20 +0200, frankwij@sci.kun.nl (Frank Wijnans)
> wrote:
> snipped some...
> >>IIRC dd was going to be called cc ("copy & convert") but since cc already
> >>existed, it got called dd instead.
> >
>
> While we're talking about abriviations: what does IIRC mean?
>
> >I thought "dd" was from "disk dubling" because it is used mostly on /dev/fd*
> >etc.
> >
> >Greetings Frank
>
If I Remember Correctly. IMHO,ROFL.
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Donovan Ready,
Lindsay Computer Systems
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