Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:50:52 -0500 From: "Kurt J. Lidl" <lidl@pix.net> To: Aled Morris <aledm@qix.co.uk>, 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: <20010212125052.A24991@pix.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102121359400.183-100000@kai.qix.co.uk>; from Aled Morris on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:01:55PM %2B0000 References: <200102020036.f120as934631@harmony.village.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102121359400.183-100000@kai.qix.co.uk>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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