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From: Aled Morris <aledm@qix.co.uk>
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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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