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- From: ath@linkoping.trab.se (Anders Thulin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: About the 'F' in RTFM
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.064457.15583@linkoping.trab.se>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 06:44:57 GMT
- References: <1992Jul17.202448.19848@wyvern.twuug.com> <MR.92Jul20131539@obelix.boss.fi> <l6rbffINN8hu@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Organization: Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden
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- In article <l6rbffINN8hu@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> limes@ouroborous.Eng.Sun.COM (Greg Limes) writes:
- >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.
-
- If you emotional impact, spit in his face.
-
- 'RTFM' is the verbal equivalent of spitting someones face. It
- shouldn't be surprising that people objects to that kind of arrogance.
-
- May I suggest that most of this discussion really belongs in
- comp.society.folklore as it doesn't have much to do with C?
- --
- Anders Thulin ath@linkoping.trab.se
- Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden
-