Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Richard Tobin
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 00:00

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In article <5lcjbv$180@web.nmti.com> peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>> dd = Data Dump (At least I always thought so)
>
>Copy and Convert.

I always imagined it was written by an IBM programmer, who probably
had "/" as his prompt.

-- Richard
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Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/16
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