[TUHS] On computerese

[Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)]

Rob Pike writes:

> For me the fascinating thing about dd is that people tended to use the JCL
> notation for its arguments even after the Unix style was made available.
> That is, people prefer "dd if=3Dfoo" rather than "dd -if foo" or even the
> obviously easiest "dd <foo".

Oh come on Rob, you should know that for anyone over the age of 50,
the moment you see 'dd' your brain automatically switches to JCL
mode.

And don't tell me you have never put a copy of dd in the root
directory just so you could tell someone to

	/dd if=...    :-)

--lyndon