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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: RE: UNIX NAME ABBREVIATIONS
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Date: Sat, 28-Nov-87 14:35:59 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 28 14:35:59 1987
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> One command (that first appeared in Version 5 in 5/15/74) that isn't
> immediately obvious in its entymology is `dd'.  My guess is that the 
> author really wanted to call it `cc' (for Convert and Copy -- the
> title on the `man' page) but that letter pair was already used.
> 	steve sutphen.

NO!  They named it after me!!!  HAHAHAHAHAHA!

Actually, the story I heard was that it stands for "duplicate disk" -- its
most frequent use.

-dd