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- From: limes@ouroborous.Eng.Sun.COM (Greg Limes)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: About the 'F' in RTFM
- Date: 22 Jul 1992 18:50:23 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- Lines: 9
- Message-ID: <l6rbffINN8hu@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <1992Jul17.202448.19848@wyvern.twuug.com> <MR.92Jul20131539@obelix.boss.fi>
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- In article <1992Jul17.202448.19848@wyvern.twuug.com> alpha@wyvern.twuug.com (Joe Wright) writes:
- > Proposed change to 'standard' practice. 'RTFM' is now 'RTM'.
- > The 'F' does not relate to any known adjective for Manual.
- > 'Read The Manual' should suffice.
-
- When some bonehead calls you up for the third time in an hour asking
- questions the he can find in Section I of the Unix Programming Manual
- or (worse) in the READ ME FIRST!!! document, telling him to RTM just
- does not have enough emotional impact.
-