* Mon, 02 Jun 2003, malcolm@shisma.freeserve.co.uk:
A lot of confusion would be removed from emails to this list if people spelt out the full words of say CLI, then used the abreviation later in the email.
There are tools in Linux to find the meanings of most TLA's[1] yourself, namely 'dict' and 'wtf' (SuSE comes *complete* remember?) SuSE comes with a acronym database of 148 entries, but with some searching you'll easily find databases with a 100o or more TLA's $ wc -l /usr/local/share/misc/Acronyms 1048 /usr/local/share/misc/Acronyms There are beauties in there you wil never see IRL[2] [1] Three Letter Acronym [2] In Real Life Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 27N , 4 29 45E. SuSE 8.2 x86 Kernel k_Athlon 2.4.20-4GB See headers for PGP/GPG info.