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From:	zzapper <david AT tvis DOT co DOT uk>
Subject:	wtf wtf
Date:	Sun, 02 Nov 2003 12:10:15 +0000
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Having been alerted to the useful ANTIWORD by this NG (Thanx Very
Much) , I also happened across WTF

wtf "translates acronyms and filename suffixes for you"

I installed and naivelly typed > wtf gsm
Nowt happened. From reading the brief man page, 
I realised that the datafiles were in /usr/share/wtf

However the datafiles aren't very large/comprehensive which makes the
tool rather useless. I can generate my own datafiles with wtfindex.
But cannot see what WTF gives me that a simple grep couldn't do just
as well.

My main GRUMBLE however is that Yet Another Man Page which gives no
examples eg

> wtf AFAIK

> wtf .asm      (you have to include the dot to get file extensions)

> wtf sco   (try this one!!)

Why are MAN pages often so useless when you dont understand the
basics, ie when the concept is new to you????

zzapper
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