May 15, 2003

RTBM

/R·T·B·M/ imp.

[Unix] Commonwealth Hackish variant of RTFM; expands to ‘Read The Bloody Manual’. RTBM is often the entire text of the first reply to a question from a newbie; the second would escalate to RTFM.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:31 AM

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