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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Path: sparky!uunet!mole-end!mat
- From: mat@mole-end
- Subject: Re: About the 'F' in RTFM
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.203152.24109@mole-end>
- Summary: It's Florblondjet!
- Organization: :
- References: <1992Jul17.202448.19848@wyvern.twuug.com> <1992Jul17.222246.29743@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:31:52 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- In article <1992Jul17.222246.29743@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com>, chew@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chee Chew) writes:
- > 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.
- > |>
- > |>--
- > |>Joe Wright alpha@wyvern.twuug.com
- >
- > what? you got something against the word "friendly" ?
-
- In my experience, it's more likely `The Florblondjet Manual' (pronounce
- as `flublungit.')
- --
- (This man's opinions are his own.)
- From mole-end Mark Terribile
-
- uunet!mole-end!mat, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
-