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Re: ITP IIRC IMHO and more



On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> Install the jargon package and you can do things like this:

Or 'dict' for that matter.  It hits against the jargon dictionary
and foldoc.  Some acronyms are in one but not the other, e.g.

$ dict WTH
1 definition found

>From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
  
  WTH
     
     who/what/why the hell?  Also {WTF}.

It's imperfect, though, as important acronyms like IANAL (I am not
a lawyer) are missing from both.

Ben
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