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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: <1992Jul22.203604.24253@mole-end>
- Summary: Or Fungible
- Organization: :
- References: <1992Jul17.202448.19848@wyvern.twuug.com> <1992Jul18.163941.24358@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:36:04 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <1992Jul18.163941.24358@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>, mozart@coos.dartmouth.edu (Sting) writes:
- > In <1992Jul17.202448.19848@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.
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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.
-
- > 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.
-
- Of course, since the fusty manuals are often neglected until they are
- about to crumble into dust, it could also mean
-
- Read The Fungible Manual
-
- --
- (This man's opinions are his own.)
- From mole-end Mark Terribile
-
- uunet!mole-end!mat, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
-