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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: <1992Jul22.203349.24181@mole-end>
- Summary: Or Fusty
- Organization: :
- References: <1992Jul17.202448.19848@wyvern.twuug.com> <3122@dozo.and.nl>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:33:49 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- In article <3122@dozo.and.nl>, jos@and.nl (Jos Horsmeier) 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.
- >
- > fabulous? famous? fancy? fantastic? fascinating? fateful? favourable?
- > fine? forgiving? forgotten? formidable? funky? funny? ;-)
-
- I also sometimes find that it is a `Fusty Manual,' given how often it
- is doesn't match the current version of the software.
- --
- (This man's opinions are his own.)
- From mole-end Mark Terribile
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- uunet!mole-end!mat, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
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