Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Shankar Unni Subject: Re: wtf wtf Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 12:07:02 -0800 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (Compact) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: zzapper wrote: > What I really want to know is why there are so few acronyms in WTF, > does anyone have bigger datafiles?? Because as distributed, it was not intended to be a universal acronym dictionary (which could run to millions of acronyms). WTF has generally been used to expand acronyms for phrases used in typical mailing list/newsgroup settings (e.g. IMO, etc.) But hey, if someone has the energy to create *and maintain* a univeral acronym library, go for it! -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/