[TUHS] On computerese

[Bakul Shah via TUHS]

> On Sep 16, 2024, at 3:50 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) <lyndon at orthanc.ca> wrote:
> 
> 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.

It has to be DD, not dd!

> 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=...    :-)

That won't work. The data definition JCL statement format
is more like this:

//<name> DD <parameters>
optionally continued by one or more of
//<spaces> DD <parameters>
...

:-)