Re: dd

[email protected] (Bob Proulx) Thu, 6 Nov 2003 02:45:45 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.fileutils.bugs
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Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 06:12:03 -0000
>    From: "Card, Cliff" <[email protected]>
> 
>    Can anyone there provide me with details of the origin of the name of
>    this command please?
> 
> Some say that it comes from "copy and convert", but `cc' was taken so
> it got named `dd' instead.  Other say that it comes from the JCL
> command `dd' (including its wonderful command line syntax), where it
> stands for "data definition".
> 
> This information is probobly inaccurate, since it comes from my memory
> (jeez, I'm this old?)...

I had heard Device Dump.  But again this was also quite removed from
the original author.  Some things are lost in prehistory...

Bob