Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:55:58 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Aled Morris <aledm@qix.co.uk>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>, jgrosch@mooseriver.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: EBCDIC -> ASCII Message-ID: <p05010400b6add397d42b@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102121359400.183-100000@kai.qix.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102121359400.183-100000@kai.qix.co.uk>
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At 2:01 PM +0000 2/12/01, 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... For what it's worth, I've also heard this. In fact, I heard it from a certain Jon "Maddog" Hall just last week... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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