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Computing | RTFB /R-T-F-B/ imp. [Unix] Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Binary'. Used when neither documentation nor source for the problem at hand exists, and the only thing to do is use some debugger or monitor and directly analyze the assembler or even the machine code. "No source for the buggy port driver? Aaargh! I _hate_ proprietary operating systems. Time to RTFB." Of the various RTF? forms, `RTFB' is the least pejorative against anyone asking a question for which RTFB is the answer; the anger here is directed at the absence of both source _and_ adequate documentation. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: RTFB |
| Specialty definitions using "RTFB": RTFM. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "b-f-r-t" | |
+2 letters: befret, bereft. | |
+3 letters: barefit, befrets, brutify, fatbird, filbert. | |
+4 letters: barefoot, biforate, bowfront, briefest, buffeter, fatbirds, fibrotic, filberts, fireboat, firebrat, freeboot, frostbit, surfboat, tubiform, turbofan. | |
+5 letters: beefeater, befretted, benefiter, bifurcate, breakfast, brutified, brutifies, buffeters, butterfat, butterfly, draftable, fabricant, fabricate, ferryboat, fibromata, filtrable, fimbriate, fireboats, firebrats, firstborn, footboard, freeboots, frostbite, refutable, refutably, surfboats, turbofans. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 54 46 42 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. - ..-. -... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01010100 01000110 01000010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R T F B |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0054 0046 0042 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52544036 |
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