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From: Kevin Hudson <kevinh@hstn.tensor.pgs.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 14:38:36 -0500
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References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l37jg$87j$1@wuff.mayn.de> <5l7jvt$q8b$10@halon.vggas.com> <5l9asg$geo$1@studs.sci.kun.nl> <337a06d8.521009@news.rug.ac.be>
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To: Tom Rogie <Tom.Rogie@rug.ac.be>
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Tom Rogie 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.
> >
>
> >I thought "dd" was from "disk dubling" because it is used mostly on /dev/fd*
> >etc.
> >
dd = Duplicate Data
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