swapless in Toronto

[Henry Spencer]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, John Macdonald wrote:
> The "dd" command dates back to very old Unix days, and it
> is derived from the OS/360 JCL command language which had
> a dd statement...

The syntax of Unix "dd" is in fact a deliberate parody of JCL's DD syntax.
(The actual options aren't all that similar in detail, although they do
some of the same things.)

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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