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Article #4676Re: Strange and wonderful prog names
From: pa... Paul Sutcliffe Jr.
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 1990 00:06
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 1990 00:06
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meis...@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes: >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.) >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). Speaking of JCL (and IBM programs), remember DEBE? Does Everything But Eat. - paul INTERNET: pa...@devon.lns.pa.us | If life's a bitch, then UUCP: ...!rutgers!devon!paul | we must be her puppies.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!eds1!devon!paul From: pa...@devon.lns.pa.us (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Strange and wonderful prog names Message-ID: <1990Oct1.000623.824@devon.lns.pa.us> Date: 1 Oct 90 00:06:23 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> <1990Sep27.151741@Pkg.Mcc.COM> <MEISSNER.90Sep28115026@osf.osf.org> Organization: Devon Computer Services, Lancaster, PA Lines: 21 Posted: Mon Oct 1 01:06:23 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit