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From: mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Abbreviation: RTFM
Message-ID: <3775@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 11 Sep 89 15:01:17 GMT
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From article <1989Sep9.195704.21367@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, by wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes):
>>RTFM.]
>  ^^^^
> 
> Does this mean what I think it means, like "Read The F***ing Manual"? ...

Things like that with F in them usually have a U. S. Army origin. 
However, if that particular thing had an Army origin it could easily
mean "Read The Field Manual."  Can somebody who was there verify that?

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