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- From: reid@metis.tti.com (Reid Kneeland)
- Subject: Re: About the 'F' in RTFM
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.182254.26932@ttinews.tti.com>
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- References: <3122@dozo.and.nl> <1992Jul21.005916.22447@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> <Brqs71.KCs@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:22:54 GMT
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- In article <Brqs71.KCs@watdragon.waterloo.edu> bbobak@violet.waterloo.edu (Brad Bobak) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul21.005916.22447@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>, dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann) writes:
- >>
- >> A frank discussion of the f-word below; those of tender constitutions may
- >> wish to press 'n' now. Also, the discussion is related to C only by the
- >> most tenuous of relations...
- >>
- >> In article <1992Jul20.162942.14863@mic.ucla.edu>, stephen@eggneb (Stephen Schimpf) 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? ;-)
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- PLEASE, take this the F out of comp.lang.c.
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