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RTBM /R-T-B-M/ Imp. [Unix] Commonwealth Hackish Variant Of RTFM
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RTBM /R-T-B-M/ imp.
[Unix] Commonwealth Hackish variant
of RTFM; expands to `Read The Bloody Manual'. RTBM is often
the entire text of the first reply to a question from a
newbie; the second would escalate to "RTFM".
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RTBM: /R-T-B-M/ [UNIX] imp. Commonwealth Hackish variant of {RTFM}
expands to `Read The Bloody Manual'. RTBM is often the entire text of the first reply to a question from a {newbie}...
RTFM: /R-T-F-M/ [UNIX] imp. Acronym for `Read The Fucking Manual'.
1. Used by {guru}s to brush off questions they consider trivial or annoying....
RTFM /R-T-F-M/ imp. [Unix] Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Manual'.
1. Used by gurus to brush off questions they consider trivial or annoying....
RTFM - Read The Fine Manual
RTFM - Read The F#*@^| Manual
RTM /R-T-M/ [Usenet: abbreviation for `Read The Manual'] 1.
Politer variant of RTFM. 2. Robert Tappan Morris, perpetrator of the great Internet worm of 1988 (see Great Worm)...
RTM: /R-T-M/ [USENET: abbreviation for `Read The Manual'] 1.
Politer variant of {RTFM}. 2. Robert T. Morris Jr....
RTFS /R-T-F-S/ [Unix] 1. imp. Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Source'.
Variant form of RTFM, used when the problem at hand is not necessarily obvious and not answerable from the manuals -- or the manuals are not yet written and maybe never will be....
FM: /F-M/ n. *Not* `Frequency Modulation' but rather an abbreviation for `Fucking Manual', the back-formation from {RTFM}.
Used to refer to the manual itself in the {RTFM}. "Have you seen the Networking FM lately?...