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From: mc68020@gilsys.UUCP (Thomas J Keller)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UNIX NAME ABBREVIATIONS
Message-ID: <1158@gilsys.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 17:20:49 EST
Article-I.D.: gilsys.1158
Posted: Mon Nov 30 17:20:49 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 23:24:25 EST
References: <10376@brl-adm.ARPA> <16550@topaz.rutgers.edu> <388@cogen.UUCP> <897@pembina.UUCP>
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Summary: come now...alphabetic sequencing?  never!

In article <897@pembina.UUCP>, steve@alberta.UUCP (Steve Sutphen) writes:
> 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.

	NAW!  'dd' OBVIOUSLY stands for 'diddle data', which can be used 
    synonymously with 'convert and copy', as anyone can clearly see!

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Tom Keller 
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