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clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2019 12:45:45 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ
> The name dd is an allusion to the DD statement found in IBM's Job Control Language (JCL), in which the initials stand for "Data Definition".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unixβ¦
@Jason_Dodd probably already knew and @notklaatu probably looked it up or got listener feedback months ago.-
Jason_Dodd (jasondodd@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2019 12:48:34 EDT Jason_Dodd
@clacke @klaatu Of courseI did. In fact my irc nick '//do dd dummy' is syntactally correct JCL statement equivalent to /dev/null
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