Subject: Re: dd could replace rawrite
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From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/13/2003 10:08:56
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On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:03:11AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 11:10:24PM -0400, James K. Lowden wrote:
> > I'd say dd is probably a better "ambassador" to the world, in the sense
> > that it reflects NetBSD's style more than the rawrite programs do.  For
> > better or worse.  ;-)
>=20
> I disagree. Probably dd is the worst command line tool in the whole
> NetBSD tree (due to its history). It's completely different from all real
> unix utilities.

Ahem ... to us old IBM JCL warriors, it's apparent why: dd is a bad joke
based on the DD (data declaration) keyword.

Regards,
	-is

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