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From: ken@usceast.UUCP (Ken Sallenger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UNIX NAME ABBREVIATIONS
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Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 14:24:27 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 30 14:24:27 1987
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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. 

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