On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:01:55PM +0000, 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...
While not completely on topic, here's the question thread from
alt.folklore.computer that started (and answered it):
http://www.web.us.uu.net/staff/djm/lore/dd-origin
-Kurt
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