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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!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!jobone!dailyplanet.srl.ford.com!eccws1.dearborn.ford.com!news From: Vince Scarafino <vscarafi@ford.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: Fri, 30 May 1997 11:28:15 -0400 Organization: Ford Motor Company Lines: 20 Message-ID: <338EF20F.6E02@ford.com> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970513200952.7143D-100000@tree.Stanford.EDU> <sejaflix4fw.fsf@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <5mgm1t$3se$1@quest.ccsi.com> <5mkgms$skr5@eccws1.dearborn.ford.com> Reply-To: vscarafi@ford.com NNTP-Posting-Host: pms045.pms.ford.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01C (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45564 comp.os.linux.misc:177761 comp.os.linux.x:62895 alt.os.linux:21693 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3446 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41888 gnu.misc.discuss:31543 comp.unix.solaris:108015 Timothy R Prodin wrote: > > Mike Cheselka <armajiro@ccsi.com> wrote: > > ... > > >>> > > dd = Data Dump (At least I always thought so) > >>> > Device Dump > ... > >Actually, dd stands for copy & convert, but cc was already taken. > > The definitive answer on this appeared earlier in this thread - dd is > define data; and the command is a takeoff on the JCL card of the same > name. (Of course, the dd JCL card has more options; and a more > confusing syntax.) There was a forwarded letter from DMR on this earlier > in this thread. > The JCL DD card may have had more options, but they had less functionality. (Quite a knack to be able to do that.)