Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!mcnc!ece-csc!ncrcae!usceast!ken From: ken@usceast.UUCP (Ken Sallenger) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: UNIX NAME ABBREVIATIONS Message-ID: <2466@usceast.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 14:24:27 EST Article-I.D.: usceast.2466 Posted: Mon Nov 30 14:24:27 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Dec-87 20:24:09 EST References: <897@pembina.UUCP> <4928@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Reply-To: ken@cs.scarolina.edu (Ken Sallenger) Organization: University of South Carolina, Columbia Lines: 14 Keywords: dd In article <4928@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> david@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Robinson) writes: > >I have read somewhere that the `dd' command is a spoof on the IBM >JCL DD statement... I suspect this may be the case. The similarities have been noted. My own personal mnemonic has always been Device-to-Device, or Disk-to- Disk copy. Particularly after some 7 years of using it to copy disk packs. -- Ken Sallenger # Dept. of Computer Science +1 803 777-4611 ken@usceast.UUCP # Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 ken@cs.scarolina.edu (CSNET)