Xah Lee's Unixism
John W. Kennedy
jwkenne at attglobal.net
Fri Sep 10 21:37:23 EDT 2004
Lew Pitcher wrote:
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> Charlie Gibbs wrote:
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>>>ObUnix: Max OS X has a "ditto" command that's the same as "cp" only
>>>different.
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>>Wasn't "ditto" the name of one of those console-driven mainframe
>>utilities that would copy anything to anything?
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> IBM 360/370/390... DOS (later DOS/VS, then DOS/VSE, then VSE/SP, then VSE/ESA)
> has a batch utility called DITTO, which copies files from device to device.
There was also an OS/360 version, but it was never as popular, since A)
OS/360 console operators are usually busy enough and B) IEBGENER wasn't
all that hard to use.
And, yes, there was a similar early program called DEBE.
> The closest analog in the pre-Unix and Unix world would be PIP
--
John W. Kennedy
"Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne
of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts"
-- J. Michael Straczynski. "Babylon 5", "Ceremonies of Light and Dark"
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