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NAME

wtf - translates acronyms and filename suffixes for you.
wtfindex - builds string file indexes for wtf
wtfdump - lists the contents of a wtf database.

SYNOPSIS

[-a ] [is ] pattern

wtfindex filename

wtfdump filename

DESCRIPTION

The program looks-up the definition of a term. It supports a number of definition sources. In this version they are an acronyms database and a filename suffixes database.

Like the Nx 1.5 version of , this version will ignore an ``is '' given on the command line, allowing the more natural usage: is wtf

Like man, will display all matches found when the -a flag is given on the command line.

The wtfindex program builds an index of the entries in filename This index is written to filename.dat filename must contain a series of lines. Each line should consist of a key (the term being defined) and a value (the definition) separated by a single tab character, and should be terminated by a newline character.

The wtfdump program lists the entries in filename in ascending order.

EXAMPLES

Find out what AFAIK stands for

Nf $ wtf afaik fI

Find all the meanings of WTF

Nf $ wtf -a WTF fI

Find out what the .asm extension means

Nf $ wtf .asm fI

What the author of the program thinks of SCO

Nf $ wtf is SCO (try this one!!!) fI

FILES

/usr/share/wtf: System-wide directory to search for data files.
$HOME/.wtf: User specific directory to search for data files.

ENVIRONMENT

WTFPATH: A colon delimited list of directories to be searched.

BUGS

The index files are not transportable across machines of different endian-ness and/or with different sizes of unsigned long

The command-line argument handling code is very rudimentary.

No doubt there are a great many more. If you find any, please squash them and send the pieces to the author.

HISTORY

first appeared in Nx 1.5 .
This version of was created on Slackware Linux 9.0.0

AUTHOR

Thomas Sutton
(thsutton@utas.edu.au)

This document was created by man2html, using the manual pages.
Time: 21:31:14 GMT, May 16, 2005

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