RTFB

(By analogy with {RTFM}) 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 analyse the assembler or even the

{machine code}.

"RTFB" is the least pejorative of the RTF? forms, the anger is

directed at the absence of both source ▫and▫ adequate

documentation rather than at the person asking a question.

[{Jargon File}]

(1995-08-20)