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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!csn!nntp-xfer-1.csn.net!cbgw1.lucent.com!newshub.netnews.att.com!news From: Allen Kirby <akirby@att.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: Thu, 22 May 1997 09:45:57 -0400 Organization: AT&T - ITS Production Services Lines: 25 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <33844E15.67EB@att.com> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l3c2f$i1j@pasilla.bbnplanet.com> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <3378D37F.462F3A47@gaijin.com> <m3bu6dyd3y.fsf@zaphod.enst.fr> <5lv7kg$oen$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk> Reply-To: akirby@att.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.20.25.* Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; U) To: Des Herriott <des@corp.netcom.net.uk> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45313 comp.os.linux.misc:176529 comp.os.linux.x:62263 alt.os.linux:21491 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3377 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41426 gnu.misc.discuss:31434 comp.unix.solaris:107285 Des Herriott wrote: > > In article <m3bu6dyd3y.fsf@zaphod.enst.fr>, > Samuel Tardieu <sam@ada.eu.org> writes: > >>>>>> "Brandon" == Brandon Harris <bharris@gaijin.com> writes: > > 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 :) > > Close. 'dd' stands for "convert and copy". At least, every dd manual > page on every Unix system I've used (which is quite a few) has it that > way. > > -- > Des Herriott > des@corp.netcom.net.uk No, dd was a joke on the IBM dd 'define data' command, according to Ken Thompson. See my previous posts. -- --- Allen Kirby AT&T ITS Production Services akirby@att.com Alpharetta, GA.