Utsl

3 definitions found

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

  UTSL
       Use The Source, Luke (telecommunication, Usenet, IRC)
       
       

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



  UTSL // n. [Unix] On-line acronym for `Use the Source, Luke' (a pun on
     Obi-Wan Kenobi's "Use the Force, Luke!" in "Star Wars") -- analogous to
     {RTFS} (sense 1), but more polite. This is a common way of suggesting
     that someone would be better off reading the source code that supports
     whatever feature is causing confusion, rather than making yet another
     futile pass through the manuals, or broadcasting questions on Usenet
     that haven't attracted {wizard}s to answer them.
  
     Once upon a time in {elder days}, everyone running Unix had source.
     After 1978, AT&T's policy tightened up, so this objurgation was in
     theory appropriately directed only at associates of some outfit with a
     Unix source license. In practice, bootlegs of Unix source code (made
     precisely for reference purposes) were so ubiquitous that one could
     utter it at almost anyone on the network without concern.
  
     Nowadays, free Unix clones have become widely enough distributed that
     anyone can read source legally. The most widely distributed is certainly
     Linux, with variants of the NET/2 and 4.4BSD distributions running
     second. Cheap commercial Unixes with source such as BSD/OS are
     accelerating this trend.
  
  

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

  UTSL
       
           {Use the Source Luke}
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1996-01-02)