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- From: mozart@coos.dartmouth.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Date: 18 Jul 92 20:39 MDT
- Subject: Re: About the 'F' in RTFM
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- Message-ID: <1992Jul18.163941.24358@dartvax.d>
- References: <1992Jul17.202448.19848@wyvern.tw>
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- In <1992Jul17.202448.19848@wyvern.twuug.com> Joe Wright writes:
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- >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.
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- >--
- >Joe Wright alpha@wyvern.twuug.com
-
- (names withheld to protect the innocent :-)
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- There was once when a user had overheard a conversation in the Consultants'
- Office here at the college, and came in wanting to know what this "RTFM"
- thing they kept saying meant.
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- The head consultant thought fast and, handing the user a Microsoft Word
- manual, said "Read the manual..."
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- The user said "Ohhhhh...a Microsoft thing!" and left happy.
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- Sighs of relief were exchanged all 'round.
-
- -Sting
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