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Date:      Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:01:55 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Aled Morris <aledm@qix.co.uk>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        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:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102121359400.183-100000@kai.qix.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200102020036.f120as934631@harmony.village.org>

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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...

Aled




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