- improve wording and overall program description (notably for `-f');

- improve macro usage;
- bump date.

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.\" $NetBSD: wtf.6,v 1.13 2009/05/04 20:37:28 wiz Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: wtf.6,v 1.14 2012/10/03 19:50:11 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Public Domain
.\"
.Dd July 27, 2007
.Dd September 25, 2012
.Dt WTF 6
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm wtf
.Nd translates acronyms for you
.Nd translate acronyms
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl f Ar dbfile
.Op Ar is
.Ar acronym Ar ...
.Ar acronym ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility displays the expansion of the acronyms
utility displays the expansion of one or more acronyms
specified on the command line.
If the acronym is not in any of the acronyms databases,
If an acronym is not in any of the acronym databases,
which are expected to be in the format
.Dq acronym[tab]meaning ,
.Nm
will check to see if the acronym is known by
will check to see if it is known by
.Xr whatis 1 ,
.Xr pkg_info 1 ,
or via pkgsrc's internal help mechanism,
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The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width flag
.It Fl f Ar dbfile
Overrides the default acronym database, bypassing the value of the
Overrides the default list of acronym databases, bypassing the value of the
.Ev ACRONYMDB
variable.
Unlike this variable the
.Fl 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.
.El
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
.Bl -tag -width ACRONYMDB
.It Ev ACRONYMDB
The default acronym database may be overridden by setting the
The default list of acronym databases may be overridden by setting the
environment variable
.Ev ACRONYMDB
to the name of one or more space-separated file names of
acronym databases.
The files must be in the proper format (acronym[tab]meaning).
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/misc/acronyms.XXXX -compact
.It Pa /usr/share/misc/acronyms
default acronym database.
.It Pa /usr/share/misc/acronyms.comp
computer-related acronym database.
default computer-related acronym database.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr make 1 ,