Re: mouse

[Paul Wade <paulwade@greenbush.com>]

On Fri, 16 May 1997, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:

> > Just a simple question. What does RTFM mean? I lost my code book.
> 
> File: jargon.info, Node: RTFM, Next: RTFS, Prev: RTFB, Up: = R =
> 
> :RTFM: /R-T-F-M/ /imp./  [Unix] Acronym for `Read The Fucking
>    Manual'.  1. Used by {guru}s to brush off questions they
>    consider trivial or annoying.  Compare {Don't do that, then!}.
>    2. Used when reporting a problem to indicate that you aren't just
>    asking out of {randomness}.  "No, I can't figure out how to
>    interface Unix to my toaster, and yes, I have RTFM."  Unlike
>    sense 1, this use is considered polite.  See also {FM},
>    {RTFAQ}, {RTFB}, {RTFS}, {RTM}, all of which mutated
>    from RTFM, and compare {UTSL}.
> 
> More interesting hacker usage can be found in the jargon info file,
> which is in its own debian package.  Highly recommended.  A lot of
> FAQ-s are found on an ftp-site actually called rtfm.mit.edu.  Also
> worth a visit.

This helps, but leads me to wonder: I have an IBM keyboard and it has a
row of keys labeled F1....F12?

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