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Re: Acronyms


On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Morrison, John wrote:

> I just found this, thought it might be fun to package
>
> <http://cronus.comp.utas.edu.au/~thsutton/computing/wtf.html>
>
> and add the cygwin specific acronyms :)
>
> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/>
>
> <snip from="the man page">
>
> wtf - translates acronyms and filename suffixes for you.
>
> The wtf program looks-up the definition of a term. It supports a number
> of definition sources. In this version they are an acronyms database and
> qa filename suffixes database.
>
> </snip>
>
> If I have the time, I might manage this in a couple of weeks time,
> if somebody beats me to it, great :)
>
> J.

John,

That sounded like a thinly veiled hint... :-D

It does look like I'm the logical maintainer for this, though.  I'll look
into making this a package shortly.  Ideas and suggestions welcome.
	Igor
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