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Article #4672Re: Strange and wonderful prog names
From: Rev. Ben A. Mesander
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 1990 22:07
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 1990 22:07
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>In article <1990Sep27.1...@cs.utk.edu> d...@de5.CTD.ORNL.GOV (Dave Sill) writes: >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 That's easy. dd is named after the IBM JCL statement of the same name. Kernighan and Pike even mention this in _The UNIX Programming environment_. -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%serv...@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!decwrl!apple!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Strange and wonderful prog names Message-ID: <ben.2818@epmooch.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 90 22:07:16 GMT References: <45094@apple.Apple.COM> <2288@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> <1990Sep26.124934.9580@cs.utk.edu> <2296@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> <1990Sep27.111850.23936@cs.utk.edu> Lines: 16 Posted: Wed Sep 26 23:07:16 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit