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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”.

The Jargon File

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The crunchly saga

The infamous Crunchly cartoons by The Great Quux are woven into the lexicon, each next to an appropriate entry. To read them in the sequence in which they were written, chase pointers from here using the ‘next cartoon’ information in the captions.