On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 19:35:33 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:

>  By the way:  For what stands the 'dd' for ?
>  (Think unix!)

The apocryphal story is that it is copy and convert, but cc was already
taken by the C compiler.

If you have ever mistyped the of argument, you'll understand why some say
it stands for delete and destroy ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix) is quite useful.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Top Oxymorons Number 11: Terribly pleased

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