From owner-freebsd-hackers  Mon Feb 12  9:51:35 2001
Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Received: from meketrex.pix.net (meketrex.pix.net [192.111.45.13])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DC4F37B4EC
	for <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 09:51:32 -0800 (PST)
Received: by meketrex.pix.net 
	id MAA25201; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:50:52 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <20010212125052.A24991@pix.net>
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
References: <200102020036.f120as934631@harmony.village.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102121359400.183-100000@kai.qix.co.uk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2
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 +0000
Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

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