Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:01:55 +0000 (GMT) From: Aled Morris <aledm@qix.co.uk> To: 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: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102121359400.183-100000@kai.qix.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200102020036.f120as934631@harmony.village.org>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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