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From: esj@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Eric S. Johnson)
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Subject: Re: RE: UNIX NAME ABBREVIATIONS
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Date: Sun, 29-Nov-87 16:18:59 EST
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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.

I heard it was a bit of a joke, named after those JCL statements that
IBMers have to deal with.



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