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From: Tom.Rogie@rug.ac.be (Tom Rogie)
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Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 19:37:26 GMT
Organization: University of Ghent, Belgium
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References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l37jg$87j$1@wuff.mayn.de> <5l7jvt$q8b$10@halon.vggas.com> <5l9asg$geo$1@studs.sci.kun.nl>
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On 13 May 1997 11:05:20 +0200, frankwij@sci.kun.nl (Frank Wijnans)
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.
>
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
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