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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.
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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
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*** 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)
  
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*** 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.
  
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*** 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