Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!purdue!spaf From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers Subject: Changes to Answers to Frequently Asked Questions Message-ID: <4698@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 18 Aug 88 04:09:43 GMT Expires: 27 Sep 88 04:09:42 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. Lines: 47 Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Supersedes: <4542@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to this group, and the version posted a few weeks ago. New users may ignore this posting -- it is intended to enable experienced users to track changes to the regularly posted Usenet documents. *** old/questions.n Tue Jul 26 19:55:50 1988 --- src/questions.n Wed Aug 17 23:01:32 1988 *************** *** 5,7 Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz) ! [Most recent change: 25 June 1988 by Erik E. Fair (fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu) --- 5,7 ----- Original-from: jerry@eagle.UUCP (Jerry Schwarz) ! [Most recent change: 17 August 1988 by Erik E. Fair (fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu) *************** *** 85,86 their right, have chosen not to make the sources available. --- 85,88 ----- their right, have chosen not to make the sources available. + However, several rogue-like games have been posted to the + comp.sources.games group and they are available in the archives. *************** *** 381 not see your request if you don't send it to the right address. --- 383,392 ----- not see your request if you don't send it to the right address. + + 31, I see BTW (or "btw") and RTFM in postings. What do they mean? + + BTW is shorthand for "by the way." + + RTFM is generally used as an admonition and means "read the f*ing + manual" (choice of f-words varies according to reader). The + implication is that the answer to a query or complaint is easy to + find if one looks in the appropriate location FIRST. -- Gene Spafford NSF/Purdue/U of Florida Software Engineering Research Center, Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004 Internet: spaf@cs.purdue.edu uucp: ...!{decwrl,gatech,ucbvax}!purdue!spaf