Re: Strange and wonderful prog names

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From: meis... Michael Meissner
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 1990 15:50

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In article <1990Sep2...@Pkg.Mcc.COM> ha...@Pkg.Mcc.COM
(Christopher North-Keys) 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.)
| 
| 
| It stands for Copy and Convert (but you see, ``cc'' was in use, so our
| pet programmer just bumped each letter up a notch...)

I strongly suspect it came from a play of the JCL dd command line (dd
does all sorts of munging on IBM datasets in preparation to execute a
command).  The options of dd certainly have a strong JCL connection
(ie, switch=value).
--
Michael Meissner	email: meis...@osf.org		phone: 617-621-8861
Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142

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