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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