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From: wct1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (William C Tom)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: What does 'UNIX' mean ?
Message-ID: <22187@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 8 Feb 90 03:16:15 GMT
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Reply-To: wct1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (William C Tom)
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In article <11321@attctc.Dallas.TX.US< davidg@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (David Guntner) writes:
<From article <1671@uniol.UUCP<, by kuehnke@uniol.UUCP (Christian Kuehnke):
<< I wonder where the name "UNIX" derives from: Is it an abbreviation or
<< just another unix-like slang-expresion (like troff, awk, etc.) ?
<
<RTFM. :-)  (For those about to whip out the flame-throwers, notice the 
<            smiley....)
<
<I suggest that you subscribe to news.announce.newusers.  About once every
<month a whole series of messages get posted there with all kinds of information
<that the new Usenetter should know about, including things like the history
<of Usenet and UNIX.  One of the articles contain common questions and their
<answers (and I've seen that one in there).
<                --Dave



I am fairly new to the usenet. Yes, I have read news.announce.newusers, but unlike some of you guys, I have not been able to memorize all the items.
It seems that on this present newsgroup, questions from virgin netters
are frequently greeted with "RTFM".  The above response is typical, 
smiley-face not withstanding.  If you are bother to answer, why not
give the f**king answer , and then recommend RTFM (knowing, superior
smile on your face, no doubt).  If you know it all but would rather not
tell, then get off this newsgroup.




-----------------Bill