Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Vince Scarafino
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 00:00

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James Youngman wrote:
> 
> In article <5l37jg$87j$1@wuff.mayn.de>, token@altair.franken.de says...
> 
> >For example whatis dd gives "convert and copy a file".  There you
> >got it where "dd" comes from, don't you?
> 
> IIRC dd was going to be called cc ("copy & convert") but since cc already
> existed, it got called dd instead.
> 
> --
> James Youngman       VG Gas Analysis Systems  The trouble with the rat-race
> Before sending advertising material, read     is, even if you win, you're
> http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html         still a rat.

...and I thought dd came from the OS/MFT JCL DD card, that was used
for Data Definition...

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From: Vince Scarafino <vscarafi@ford.com>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/12
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