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#! rnews 1290 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!top.mts.net!usenet From: Programming <sysdev@mb.sympatico.ca> 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: Tue, 20 May 1997 09:43:21 -0500 Organization: ADP Systems Partnership Lines: 5 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3381B889.60A5@mb.sympatico.ca> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: as7c-p01.mts.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; U) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45238 comp.os.linux.misc:176251 comp.os.linux.x:62097 alt.os.linux:21430 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3350 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41309 gnu.misc.discuss:31399 comp.unix.solaris:107020 Isn't dd short for the girl's name, DierDre? That's what we always called my cousin. > I thought "dd" was from "disk dubling" because it is used mostly on /dev/fd*