From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 12 22:10:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A8A37B503 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 22:10:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14SYCU-00009E-00; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 22:40:30 -0700 Message-ID: <3A88C8CE.F7D74AA0@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 22:40:30 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aled Morris Cc: Warner Losh , Peter Pentchev , Garance A Drosihn , Luigi Rizzo , jgrosch@mooseriver.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EBCDIC -> ASCII References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message