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Date:      Sat, 17 Oct 1998 05:10:19 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
To:        malartre@aei.ca (Malartre)
Cc:        freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD User Guide
Message-ID:  <199810170310.FAA01755@ocean.campus.luth.se>
In-Reply-To: <3626C622.23A4E9B6@aei.ca> from Malartre at "Oct 16, 98 00:05:55 am"

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According to Malartre:
> I would like an automated way to transfer the previous/home/next link on
> the top. (any man page?)
> I have ---73--- *.html file to edit!
> So long and boring.

Non trivial, I think. Maybe an emacs keyboard macro could do it if you thought
some before you constructed it? :-)

> I would also like to know the -exact- meaning of "ie."
> Something like "exemple"?

It's latin.
"ie" == "id est" == "that is"
"eg" == "exempli gratia" == "for example"

While I'm at it, here's some abbrevations I've seen a lot here and some of
which I couldn't figure out myself:

YMMV       == Your milage may vary
MFC        == Merge from current
YAMFC      == Yet another MFC
HAND       == Have a nice day
HTH        == Happy to help
PITA       == Pain in the ass
POLA       == Principle of least astonishment
IIRC       == If I recall correctly
FYI        == For your information
IM(NS)(H)O == In my (not so) (humble) opinion
UTSL       == Use the source, Luke
RSN        == Real soon now
ITYM       == I think you mean
PR         == Problem report (sent with send-pr to the PR database)

That's all I can think of straight away...

I really think someone should put up a list of such often used abbreviations
on a webpage close to the mailing list archives. :-)

  /Mikael

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