Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/10/06/13:08:49
On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Fred Kulack wrote:
> On 10/06/2004 at 04:30:02 AM, cygwin-owner wrote:
> it's shouting "TITTTL" at the top of your voice
> while running round the room flapping your arms like a chicken!
> --- end of excerpt ---
>
> 8-) Oh yeah.... That'll help, near as I can tell there's 95 acronyms
> right now.
> there's just
> "Nothing Quite Like Geeks Going Over Board" (I think I'd pronounce that
> one 'nickel gob')
Use that one a few times, and you'll get it in. :-D
> And just to make this post more on topic (which topic, I don't have a
> clue), here's one for you that you don't want to live without.
>
> >From your command prompt, use:
> > google cygwin acronym list
>
> If that doesn't work, setup this function:
> > typeset -f google
> google ()
> {
> url="http://www.google.com";
> separator="/search?q=";
> for i in $@;
> do
> url="${url}${separator}${i}";
> separator="+";
> done;
> echo "Starting: $url";
> ~/bin/firefox "$url" &
> }
Or, from your command prompt, use:
> wtf OLOCA
If that doesn't work, install the 'wtf' package.
(and as soon as I find the time to update the 'wtf' package, you'll be
able to also say "wtf TITTTL").
Igor
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