Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Tom Rogie
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 00:00

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On 13 May 1997 11:05:20 +0200, frankwij@sci.kun.nl (Frank Wijnans)
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.
>

While we're talking about abriviations: what does IIRC mean?

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

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From: Tom.Rogie@rug.ac.be (Tom Rogie)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/14
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