Re: Strange and wonderful prog names

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From: d... Dave Sill
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 11:18

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In article <22...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca>, pet...@opus.cs.mcgill.ca (Peter Deutsch) writes:
>
>Okay, I should have said "I can't grok" has found its
>way...etc, etc. Jeesh, don't read what I type, read what I
>mean!  ;^)

I figured you knew what it meant, I just didn't want anyone who didn't
already know what "grok" meant to learn it wrong.

>How about other creatively named programs?
>Perhaps (and preferably) with a joke in the name or
>otherwise suitably obscure?

How about "dd"?  Can anyone guess how it got its name?  (I have a
plausible explanation, but I want to see if anyone can confirm it.)

-- 
Dave Sill (d...@ornl.gov)
Martin Marietta Energy Systems
Workstation Support

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