Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Allen Kirby
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 00:00

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Des Herriott wrote:
> 
> In article <m3bu6dyd3y.fsf@zaphod.enst.fr>,
>         Samuel Tardieu <sam@ada.eu.org> writes:
> >>>>>> "Brandon" == Brandon Harris <bharris@gaijin.com> writes:
> > Brandon> Device Dump
> >
> > I was told a few years ago that the programmers wanted to use "cc" for
> > Carbon Copy but this was already used for the C Compiler, so they
> > chose "dd" without any good reason :)
> 
> Close.  'dd' stands for "convert and copy".  At least, every dd manual
> page on every Unix system I've used (which is quite a few) has it that
> way.
> 
> --
> Des Herriott
> des@corp.netcom.net.uk

No, dd was a joke on the IBM dd 'define data' command, according to Ken
Thompson. See my previous posts.
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From: Allen Kirby <akirby@att.com>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/22
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