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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!europa.clark.net!netnews.com!entertainment-tonight.ai.mit.edu!not-for-mail From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> 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: 26 May 1997 00:06:27 -0400 Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 17 Message-ID: <sejaflix4fw.fsf@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l3c2f$i1j@pasilla.bbnplanet.com> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <3378D37F.462F3A47@gaijin.com> <Pine.SUN.3.95.970513170134.19438A-100000@omni2> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970513200952.7143D-100000@tree.Stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45421 comp.os.linux.misc:176992 comp.os.linux.x:62515 alt.os.linux:21568 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3417 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41613 gnu.misc.discuss:31484 comp.unix.solaris:107582 > > > dd = Data Dump (At least I always thought so) > > Device Dump > Sure about that one? The functionality of > dd if=/tmp/myfile conv=ascii of=/tmp/newfile > wouldn't make sense if the command were truly a device > level operator. The functionality of 'cat .profile' makes little sense for a file concatenator, but cat found uses other than concatenation. -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped