2007/1/29, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 29/01/07, Yedidyah Bar-David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also have a feeling (did not check) that dd is much faster. > -- > Didi > You're probably partial to dd because it's your name!
Obviously :-) You can guess I heard by now many jokes regarding this ... And if we are getting this OT, I'll add that I thought for many years that dd is 'copy and convert' as it's manpage says, only 'cc' was already used for 'c compiler' so they took 'dd'. But the reality is that it's named after a OS 360 JCL command with the same name, similar functionality and similar syntax, which also explains the odd, non-unixy syntax it has. Google if you are interested. -- Didi
