<quote who="David">

> There is all this jargon that you guys throw around with gay abandon. What
> the hell is a wrapper? (fantales?)... what are curses? (dumb question?)
> ... and lets not even *start* on acronyms....


You need dict!


<screen>
lazarus: ~/src/gnome/balsa-1.0.0
$ dict pcmcia
1 definition found

>From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (05 Sep 00) [foldoc]:

  PCMCIA
  
          <body, standard> {Personal Computer Memory Card International
          Association}.  (Or People Can't Memorise Computer Industry
          Acronyms).
</screen>


Mine queries way too many sources. It's very, very cool.

- Jeff


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