Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Mike Cheselka
Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 00:00

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In article <sejaflix4fw.fsf@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu>,
Joel Ray Holveck  <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> 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.

Actually, dd stands for copy & convert, but cc was already taken.

>The functionality of 'cat .profile' makes little sense for a file
>concatenator, but cat found uses other than concatenation.

cat means to concatant; in this sense stdout is unspoken.

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From: armajiro@ccsi.com (Mike Cheselka)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/28
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