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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!news2.EUnet.fr!enst!zaphod.enst.fr!news From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@ada.eu.org> 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 23:09:53 +0200 Organization: Sam's machine Lines: 13 Sender: sam@zaphod.enst.fr Message-ID: <m3bu6dyd3y.fsf@zaphod.enst.fr> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l3c2f$i1j@pasilla.bbnplanet.com> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <3378D37F.462F3A47@gaijin.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII To: Brandon Harris <bharris@gaijin.com> X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.4.15/XEmacs 20.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:44923 comp.os.linux.misc:175224 comp.os.linux.x:61523 alt.os.linux:21121 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3204 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40870 gnu.misc.discuss:31238 comp.unix.solaris:106451 >>>>> "Brandon" == Brandon Harris <bharris@gaijin.com> writes: >> dd = Data Dump (At least I always thought so) Brandon> Device Dump I was told a few years ago that the programmers wanted to use "cc" for Carbon Copy but this was already used for the C Compiler, so they chose "dd" without any good reason :) Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@ada.eu.org