Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Roger Espel Llima
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 00:00

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In article <5lanj7$6r4@netaxs.com>, Joel Coltoff <joel@wmi0.wmi.com> wrote:
|Steve Elliott  <jbodarky@voicenet.com> 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.
|
|My recollection is Device-to-Device copy. I've heard that
|this was the equivalent of PIP (peripheral interchange program)
|that ran on RT-11/RSTS/tenex/twenex and a whole bunch of other
|DEC operating systems. Ouch I think I'm showing my age and I'm
|not even 40.

didn't cp/m have a command called PIP too, for copying?  i think i saw
that on old crappy amstrads.


	Roger
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From: espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr (Roger Espel Llima)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/15
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