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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Michael JasonSmith                                   http://www.ldots.org/

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