On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:17:11PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > As per John Morrison's suggestion, I would like to contribute and maintain > wtf (http://cronus.comp.utas.edu.au/~thsutton/computing/wtf.html). > > wtf(6) is a utility provided by some UNIX and UNIX-like systems including > Slackware Linux and NetBSD. It translates acronyms and filename suffixes > by looking up the definition of a term in various databases. > > I've added the OLOCA to the database directory (named %OLOCA to place it > first in search order). There's also a perl script that can update that > file from the web version of the OLOCA (also requires wget), but since > this rule is totally optional (and won't be invoked in the default build), > I didn't put perl and wget as prerequisites for building wtf. This is > mentioned in wtf.README as well. > > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/cygwin/wtf/wtf-0.0.3-1.tar.bz2 > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/cygwin/wtf/wtf-0.0.3-1-src.tar.bz2 > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/cygwin/wtf/setup.hint (also inline below) > > sdesc: "translates acronyms and filename suffixes for you" > ldesc: "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." > requires: cygwin > category: Text Doc
This has my vote. -- +-------------------------------------------+ | Marcel Telka e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | homepage: http://telka.sk/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +-------------------------------------------+
