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WTF(6)				   Games Manual 			  WTF(6)

NAME
     wtf -- look up terms

SYNOPSIS
     wtf [-f dbfile] [is] term ...

DESCRIPTION
     The wtf utility looks up the meaning of one or more term operands specified
     on the command line.

     term  will  first	be  searched for as an acronym in the acronym databases,
     which are expected to be in the format "acronym[tab]meaning".  If no  match
     has  been	found,	wtf will check to see if the term is known by whatis(1),
     pkg_info(1), or, when  called  from  within  a  pkgsrc  package  directory,
     pkgsrc's internal help facility, "make help topic=XXX".

     The  optional  is operand will be ignored, allowing the fairly natural "wtf
     is WTF" usage.

     The following option is available:

     -f dbfile
	   Overrides the default list of acronym databases, bypassing the  value
	   of  the  ACRONYMDB variable.  Unlike this variable the -f option only
	   accepts one file name as an argument, but it may  be  given	multiple
	   times to specify more than one file to use.

ENVIRONMENT
     ACRONYMDB	The  default list of acronym databases may be overridden by set-
		ting the environment variable ACRONYMDB to the name  of  one  or
		more space-separated file names of acronym databases.

FILES
     /usr/share/misc/acronyms	    default acronym database.
     /usr/share/misc/acronyms.comp  default computer-related acronym database.

SEE ALSO
     make(1), pkg_info(1), whatis(1)

HISTORY
     wtf  first  appeared in NetBSD 1.5.  Initially it only translated acronyms;
     functionality to look up the meaning of terms in other  sources  was  added
     later.

NetBSD 7.1			November 20, 2012			  WTF(6)
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