RE: wtf wtf

2003-11-03 Thread kevin.lawton
Have you tried typing 'man man' (without the quotes) ? ? ? -Original Message- From: zzapper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 November 2003 12:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: wtf wtf snip Why are MAN pages often so useless when you dont understand the basics, ie when

Re: wtf wtf

2003-11-03 Thread zzapper
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 13:24:11 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried typing 'man man' (without the quotes) ? ? ? I think you misunderstand my question . the WTF MAN page contained no examples, that would have saved a 1000 words.BTW I've been using unix since 1984. What I really want to

Re: wtf wtf

2003-11-03 Thread Shankar Unni
zzapper wrote: What I really want to know is why there are so few acronyms in WTF, does anyone have bigger datafiles?? Because as distributed, it was not intended to be a universal acronym dictionary (which could run to millions of acronyms). WTF has generally been used to expand acronyms for

Re: wtf wtf

2003-11-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, zzapper wrote: Shankar Unni What I really want to know is why there are so few acronyms in WTF, does anyone have bigger datafiles?? Because as distributed, it was not intended to be a universal acronym dictionary (which could run to millions of acronyms). WTF

wtf wtf

2003-11-02 Thread zzapper
Having been alerted to the useful ANTIWORD by this NG (Thanx Very Much) , I also happened across WTF wtf translates acronyms and filename suffixes for you I installed and naivelly typed wtf gsm Nowt happened. From reading the brief man page, I realised that the datafiles were in /usr/share/wtf