Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 18:24:23 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: zzapper cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: wtf wtf In-Reply-To: <0hddqv02becobi1plmsuu26um1h6fmd3ij@4ax.com> Message-ID: References: <0hddqv02becobi1plmsuu26um1h6fmd3ij AT 4ax DOT com> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, zzapper wrote: > Shankar Unni > > > >> 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! > > > > > What does the conversion to a DAT file achieve?? save a bit of > space/speed search? > > zzapper The latter. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/