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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: Tue, 13 May 1997 14:22:36 -0500
Organization: Lindsay Computer Systems
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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> <33776BE4.6883@ford.com>
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Vince Scarafino wrote:
>
> James Youngman wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > James Youngman
> ...and I thought dd came from the OS/MFT JCL DD card, that was used
> for Data Definition...
For lots of folks, after an unsuccessful attempt to use dd, call it
"disk destroyer" ;-) Isn't it really "Dump Data"?
--
Donovan Ready,
Lindsay Computer Systems
http://www.jumpnet.com/~lcs
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