Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Allen Kirby
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 00:00

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Joel Ray Holveck wrote:
> 
> > > > 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

Ken Thompson confirmed that the origin of 'dd' was a joke on the IBM
'dd' mainframe command, which I believe stood for 'define data'.
-- 
---
Allen Kirby			AT&T ITS Production Services
akirby@att.com			Alpharetta, GA.

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From: Allen Kirby <akirby@att.com>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/27
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