Re: Strange and wonderful prog names

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From: ha... Christopher North-Keys
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 20:17

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> 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...)

Now all we need is a program to do safe compresses.  This is not so
easy if you're over quota at the time on a fascist filesystem.  We
describe it as ``compress and check'' and name it...


	... ``ee'' ?  :-)


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Christopher Alex.North-Keys                          Associate Systems Analyst
Group Talisman                                                  Harp[@Mcc.Com]
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