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From: d88-sli@nada.kth.se (Stefan Lindmark)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Abbreviation: RTFM
Message-ID: <1630@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 13 Sep 89 11:05:42 GMT
References: <1989Sep9.195704.21367@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <3775@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <865@becker.UUCP>
Reply-To: d88-sli@nada.kth.se (Stefan Lindmark)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <865@becker.UUCP> bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes:
|In article <3775@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant) writes:
||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?
|
|
|	It means "Read The F*cking Manual". This is more
|	recent than FUBAR or TARFU, which are WWII acronyms,
|	and it incorporates a different approach to things.
|	RTFM has been with us since the 70's, or perhaps
|	the late 60's. Note the time correspondence with
|	the use of computers 8^)...

For those of you who does not like the idea of washing your mouth with
soap, here's a rather polite interpretation: Read The Fine Manual.

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