17 Sep
2024
17 Sep
'24
1:14 a.m.
On Sep 16, 2024, at 3:50 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg
(VE7TFX/VE6BBM) <lyndon(a)orthanc.ca> wrote:
Rob Pike writes:
It has to be DD, not dd!
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=... :-)
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>
...
:-)