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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>RTFB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../R.html" title="R"/><link rel="previous" href="RTFAQ.html" title="RTFAQ"/><link rel="next" href="RTFM.html" title="RTFM"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">RTFB</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RTFAQ.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">R</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="RTFM.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="RTFB"/><dt xmlns="" id="RTFB"><b>RTFB</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/R<>T<EFBFBD>F<EFBFBD>B/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">imp.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Unix] Abbreviation for ‘Read The Fucking Binary’. Used
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when neither documentation nor source for the problem at hand exists, and
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the only thing to do is use some debugger or monitor and directly analyze
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the assembler or even the machine code. “<span class="quote">No source for the buggy
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port driver? Aaargh! I <span class="emphasis"><em>hate</em></span> proprietary operating
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systems. Time to RTFB.</span>”</p><p>Of the various RTF? forms, ‘RTFB’ is the least pejorative
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against anyone asking a question for which RTFB is the answer; the anger
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here is directed at the absence of both source <span class="emphasis"><em>and</em></span>
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adequate documentation.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="RTFAQ.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="RTFM.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">RTFAQ<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>RTFM</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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