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Article #4564Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
From: James Youngman
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 00:00
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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.
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