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by drudru11 2138 days ago
Hi msbarnett: sorry unrelated to this thread. In an older thread you mention an acronym TFA. The thread was a discussion on sparse files and removing bytes from the front of a file. What is TFA?
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msbarnett 2137 days ago
If you’re referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20110301, it stands for “The Fucking Article” as in http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/R/RTFM.html
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drudru11 2137 days ago
Haha - thanks :-) I thought it was an abbreviation for some special tome on Operating Systems design.
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