From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 12 9:56:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3743437B491 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 09:56:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA188714; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:55:59 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:55:58 -0500 To: Aled Morris , Warner Losh From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: EBCDIC -> ASCII Cc: Peter Pentchev , Luigi Rizzo , jgrosch@mooseriver.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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