Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Joel Ray Holveck
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 00:00

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> > > 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.

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From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/26
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