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 acrony

Re: wtf wtf

2003-11-03 Thread zzapper
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 has generally been used to expand acr

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 fo

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 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 Why are MAN pages often so useless when you dont understand the basics, ie when the concept is