* wtf wtf
@ 2003-11-02 12:10 zzapper
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From: zzapper @ 2003-11-02 12:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
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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* RE: wtf wtf
@ 2003-11-03 13:24 kevin.lawton
2003-11-03 15:10 ` zzapper
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From: kevin.lawton @ 2003-11-03 13:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: david, cygwin
Have you tried typing 'man man' (without the quotes) ? ? ?
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From: zzapper [mailto:david@tvis.co.uk]
Sent: 02 November 2003 12:10
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: wtf wtf
<snip>
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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* Re: wtf wtf
2003-11-03 13:24 kevin.lawton
@ 2003-11-03 15:10 ` zzapper
2003-11-03 20:07 ` Shankar Unni
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From: zzapper @ 2003-11-03 15:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 13:24:11 -0000, <kevin.lawton@bt.com> wrote:
>Have you tried typing 'man man' (without the quotes) ? ? ?
I think you misunderstand my question . the WTF MAN page contained no
examples, that would have saved a 1000 words.BTW I've been using unix
since 1984.
What I really want to know is why there are so few acronyms in WTF,
does anyone have bigger datafiles??
zzapper
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* Re: wtf wtf
2003-11-03 15:10 ` zzapper
@ 2003-11-03 20:07 ` Shankar Unni
2003-11-03 20:35 ` zzapper
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From: Shankar Unni @ 2003-11-03 20:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
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!
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* Re: wtf wtf
2003-11-03 20:07 ` Shankar Unni
@ 2003-11-03 20:35 ` zzapper
2003-11-03 23:24 ` Igor Pechtchanski
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From: zzapper @ 2003-11-03 20:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
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
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* Re: wtf wtf
2003-11-03 20:35 ` zzapper
@ 2003-11-03 23:24 ` Igor Pechtchanski
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From: Igor Pechtchanski @ 2003-11-03 23:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: zzapper; +Cc: cygwin
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
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