Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 22:40:30 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Aled Morris <aledm@qix.co.uk> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>, jgrosch@mooseriver.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EBCDIC -> ASCII Message-ID: <3A88C8CE.F7D74AA0@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102121359400.183-100000@kai.qix.co.uk>
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Aled Morris wrote:
>
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> >Even the name (dd) comes from IBM's control language (JSYS?).
>
> I don't disagree, but someone once told me the name came from what
> it does "Convert and Copy a file" - see dd(1) - but "cc" was already
> taken...
dd == device dump; the original use of dd was to move blocks of data
between disks and tape.
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