Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Joerg Schilling
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 00:00

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In article <5l9asg$geo$1@studs.sci.kun.nl>,
Frank Wijnans <frankwij@sci.kun.nl> wrote:
>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*

'dd' was made after a program called 'DDR' on IBM mainframes. 
The full name of 'DDR' was "Disk dump and restore"

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From: js@cs.tu-berlin.de (Joerg Schilling)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/14
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