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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 17 May 1997 20:24:42 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman) wrote:
> IIRC dd was going to be called cc ("copy & convert") but since cc already
> existed, it got called dd instead.
dump disk
I think it was the first `backup' program, you simply dumped an entire
disk to a tape. dump(8) is a more sophisticated predecessor.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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