Wasn't originally written as a joke?

Post #10,963 by static 9/30/01 1:08:41 AM Reply	Wasn't originally written as a joke? Unix's dd, i mean, not JCL. Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #10,966 by Meerkat 9/30/01 1:48:13 AM Reply	Perhaps both :) JCL couldn't possibly have been the product of a sane mind. :) never thought about the dd link though - I just thought it meant Dataset Definition on the MVS side, and no idea what it meant on the unix side. Well there ya go, maybe I just learned something. On and on and on and on, and on and on and on goes John.
Post #10,974 by kmself 9/30/01 2:51:17 AM Reply	Tape management, IIRC Most of the core functionality of `dd` is most useful (and most frequently used) when pulling data from tapes. Given that tape was pretty much Lingua Franca for transferring MF data from the 1970s through the 1990s, and various low-level formatting issues (blocksize, packing factors, buffering, etc., etc.). The syntax was in common enough use, I suppose that it was adopted for Unix when dealing with data originating on Mainframe systems. Not a joke, sorry to say. Google, as usual, [link\|http://www.google.com/search?q=unix+dd+command+history\|is useful]. `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?`
Post #10,985 by Meerkat 9/30/01 4:02:54 AM Reply	Yup, I love the unix dd In a Data Warehousing environment, it proved to be invaluable on a number of occasions. I'm amused Google spat out an ad for me to search my family history :) Maybe I have a long lost relative caleld Dee-Dee or something. Interesting stuff to read whilst I'm stuck at work, anyway. On and on and on and on, and on and on and on goes John.
Post #11,085 by drewk 10/1/01 10:52:57 AM 10/2/01 10:19:52 AM Reply	OT: re 'Lingua Franca' (edit is for a typo) Now that the defacto language of international business and politics seems more often to be English than French, is it time to change the phrase to 'lingua engla'? We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists. -- [link\|http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/opinion/BIO-FRIEDMAN.html\|Thomas Friedman] Edited by drewk Oct. 2, 2001, 10:19:52 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #11,130 by kmself 10/1/01 4:20:18 PM Reply	Re: OT: re 'Lingua Franca' Consider: a latin phrase for use of French now refers to English.... <sigh> `-- Karsten M. Self [link\|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com\|kmself@ix.netcom.com] What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?`

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