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From: yakker@ucrmath.UCR.EDU (matt robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: RTFM
Message-ID: <2475@ucrmath.UCR.EDU>
Date: 10 Nov 89 02:01:12 GMT
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In article 20515 yahoo@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Kenneth L Moore) writes:
>In article 9 chuckb@lotex.UUCP (Chuck Bentley) writes:
>==>In article <20486@unix.cis.pitt.edu==> yahoo@unix.cis.pitt.edu 
>==>(Kenneth L Moore) writes:
>
>==>RTFM.  Try reading _something_ relating to UNIX before posting.  
>==>Also, do you
>==>have any idea how much bandwidth your signature uses?
>==>
>==>		Chuck...	..!moray!lotex!chuckb
 
>What does RTFM mean?

Read The F***ing Manual.  It's a figure of speech one of our old 
systems administrators used to give to C.S. students asking dumb
quick questions.

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