README FILE

  

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README FILE

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README file n. Hacker's-eye introduction traditionally included in the top-level directory of a Unix source distribution, containing a pointer to more detailed documentation, credits, miscellaneous revision history, notes, etc. (The file may be named README, or READ.ME, or rarely ReadMe or readme.txt or some other variant.) In the Mac and PC worlds, software is not usually distributed in source form, and the README is more likely to contain user-oriented material like last-minute documentation changes, error workarounds, and restrictions. When asked, hackers invariably relate the README convention to the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled "Eat Me" and "Drink Me". Source: Jargon File.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: README FILE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-f-i-l-m-r"

-2 letters: refilmed, remailed, remedial.

-3 letters: defamer, defiler, emailed, emerald, federal, fielder, filaree, flamier, fleered, leadier, leafier, limeade, mealier, refiled.

-4 letters: admire, aedile, aeried, afield, ariled, deafer, dealer, dearie, defame, defier, defile, deflea, delime, derail, dermal, dialer, eelier, elmier, faerie, failed, faired, fardel, farmed, feared, feeder, feeler, female, feriae, ferial, ferlie, filmed, filmer, firmed, flamed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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Alternative Orthography: README FILE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 45 41 44 4D 45      46 49 4C 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01000101 01000001 01000100 01001101 01000101 00100000 01000110 01001001 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#65 &#68 &#77 &#69 &#32 &#70 &#73 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0041 0044 004D 0045      0046 0049 004C 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

523935384739240434639

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2. Orthography
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