Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Frank Wijnans
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 00:00

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JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman) writes:

>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.

I thought "dd" was from "disk dubling" because it is used mostly on /dev/fd*
etc.

Greetings Frank

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From: frankwij@sci.kun.nl (Frank Wijnans)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/13
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