On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 23:10, Paul Wilkins wrote: > My beef with COBOL. I suspect that most Linux administrators will come across a COBOL-related command that has found its way into the Unix lexicon:
dd
That is why the option-syntax for dd is so strange, it is derived from
the OS/390 command to set up all the devices before you start your COBOL
procedure :)
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