Rtfm

3 definitions found

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  RTFM
       Read The Flaming / Fucking Manual (telecommunication-slang, Usenet,
       IRC)
       
       



From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  RTFM /R-T-F-M/ imp. [Unix] Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Manual'.
     1. Used by {guru}s to brush off questions they consider trivial or
     annoying. Compare {Don't do that then!}. 2. Used when reporting a
     problem to indicate that you aren't just asking out of {randomness}.
     "No, I can't figure out how to interface Unix to my toaster, and yes, I
     have RTFM." Unlike sense 1, this use is considered polite. See also
     {FM}, {RTFAQ}, {RTFB}, {RTFS}, {STFW}, {RTM}, all of which mutated from
     RTFM, and compare {UTSL}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  RTFM
       
           /R T F M/ Read The Fucking Manual (always
          abbreviated, sometimes bowdlerised to "Fine" or "Friendly") An
          (unhelpful) {guru}'s traditional response when someone asks a
          question in a {newsgroup} or {mailing list} which he could
          have easily answered for himself had he bothered to RTFM.
       
          The term may also be used to indicate that you couldn't find
          the answer in the manual.  E.g. "How do I interface Unix to my
          toaster?  And yes, I did RTFM but the {FM} didn't help and I
          can't {RTFS}."
       
          Other derived forms include {RTFAQ}, {RTFB}, {RTM}, and, more
          recently, {STFW}.  Compare: {UTSL}.
       
          [Earliest use?]
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (2003-06-07)