Re: [tlug] abbreviations

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

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On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 02:18:57PM +0900, Evan Monroig wrote:
> Dear Tlug,
> 
> It has been some time that I read this mailing list (and occasionally
> participate), and I think that I understand most of the abbreviations
> used here, for example
> 
> AFAIK = As Far As I Know
> 
> But some I still don't understand, for example "IIRC".
> 
> When you don't know, what is the best way to look for it? Is there a
> list somewhere?

IIRC is If I remember correctly.

There's a bunch of lists--usually, when I see one I don't know (Godwin
comes up with them sometimes--I had no idea what YADATROT was---yet
another desparate attempt to remain on topic) I just put it into google.

However, there is a little program called wtf as in What the f**k. It's
available as a port in FreeBSD and Josh has mentioned using it, so I
assume it's in Gentoo as well.  Slackware should have it in the BSD
games, I don't know about other distributions.  

It's available at

http://www.mu.org/~mux/wtf/

as a tar.gz file.

It doesn't cover all of them, but it covers many of them.

It's just a little shell script with a database (the database is
actually just a textfile list).


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