cca glossary

general terms and some very cca specific:

faq

Frequently Asked Questions (also: frequent answers and questions)

acad faq

comp.cad.autocad AutoCAD FAQ, in development and will be extended and posted to be usable. not Peter Sheerin's acad faq, see old faq and Peter's faq

lisp faq

comp.cad.autocad AutoLISP FAQ, not the comp.lang.lisp FAQ http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/autocad/news/faq/autolisp.html

old faq

the official comp.cad.autocad FAQ, the latest -frames- version is at http://www.cadence-mag.com/library/FAQ

Peter's faq

see old faq

AAIG

AutoDESK Application Interoperatibility Guidelines

(for developers applications, to let their work work together)

acad

AutoCAD, 80%, our CAD program which most of us love and hate, see microstation

ACIS

a library by Spatial Technologies, market leader in BRep modelling lib

adesk

AutoDESK, see The AutoDESK File

ADN

AutoDESK Developers Network (now they want money for developers support)

ADS

C programming interface

ARX

the latest hype in acad programming. Now called ObjectARX.

ObjectARX

ARX for R14

ADGE

AutoCAD Developers Group Europe

AEC

Architecture / Engineering / Construction, the field adesk sells most acad's, dominated by the former Softdesk

CAD

Computer Aided Drafting

CAAD

Computer Aided Architectural Drafting

AI

Artificial Intelligence (not: intelligent program!)

MFC

Microsoft Foundation Classes, allow modeless dialogs instead of sticky DCL's

DCL

Dialog Control Language, adesk's solution to define a GUI within AutoCAD, see MFC, but more like Tcl/Tk or X

GUI

Graphical User Interface (see MFC or DCL)

alias

command abbrevation, via the pgp or c:

alisp

AutoLISP, cool script language for AutoCAD (not a SCRIPT!), .lsp extension, see also lisp (has anbody a lisp which ...)

lisp

an AutoLISP file/program, "has anbody a lisp which ..." also:

Lisp

a computer language (not AutoLISP), see CL

CL

Common Lisp (a huge standardized Lisp), has nothing to do with alisp

xlisp

a free small OO Lisp (but more like Scheme) by David Betz, the basis for AutoLISP see news:comp.lang.lisp.x or comp.cad.autocad (sometimes)

AME

Advanced Modeling System, the old (R12) CSG modeller, was too slow

acomp

a free r12 lisp compiler, supported for the international releases, see bi4

C:

a lisp function prefix that enables that function to be called as ordinary AutoCAD command

cis

Compuserve, mostly their forums. the adesk forum is similar to cca but moderated (means censored) by adesk (really!)

cca

comp.cad.autocad newsgroup (Note: aca for alt.cad.autocad is not used)

brep

Boundary Representation, solids made of faces, not primitives. Fast but primitive

CSG

Constructive Solid Geometry, solids made by primitives and boolean combinations, slow, but advanced technology, stores its creation history, best in conjunction with intermediate brep's

quad

a face of 4 points in 3d space (just for no-see-trough), used by acad, also used in the term quad-mesh (mesh of quads, acad meshes), a quad is very hard to keep planar, see triangle

triangle

a face of 3 points in 3d space (for no-see-troughs and coloured faces), used by most of the simple renderers, i.e 3ds, always planar, see quad

polygon

closed connected lines, usually planar, just list of pts, such as (p1 p2 p3 ... pn)

pt

a point, list of two or three numbers, (0 0 0)

pts

points, a list of points, ((0 0)(1 0)(2 2)), may be a polygon

pline

acad polyline, a complex entity consisting of a header with general attributes and vertices with point and bulge (curve) information

bulge

number in a vertex. group 40 in a vertex. see the AutoLISP FAQ for definition, maths and functions

group

* entity attribute field, integer number between -4 and 1099. car of an association list. see the AutoLISP FAQ

* sometimes also used for cca: "the group"

* with R13 there are also "Groups", similar to blocks, but you may edit subparts of a Group too

block

a definition of an INSERT entity, collection of acad entities (also other inserts). Often you mean insert (the entity) when you say block (the definition). Often the most interesting and confusing part working with acad. see also layer

layer

a common attribute as string with max 32 chars. every single entity has a layer. default: "0", often described as foil you work on and put together but I dont like this definition. It's simply the only common attribute used to group entities together (same as with blocks or groups) and to manage visual information of entity groups (color, linetype, visible or not, editable or not) Former competitive cad programs had only a restricted number and features of layer-alikes that's why they didn't make it.

pen

plot pen, often the plot color, pen definitions are stored in .pcp files. Note: white is black on white paper and black on a white screen background

3ds

3D Studio, a top product by adesk, written by the Yost group, bought by adesk. standard program for Visualization and Animation

max

3DStudio Max, the latest 3ds, nt only, completely rewritten, using heidi

lib

a software library, a collection of compiled functions, normally documented, otherwise useless

compiled

not readable program (lot of weird characters), but runs quite fast, sometimes also encrypted (fas, bi4) to see only weird characters, cannot be uncompiled, besides not really compiled programs like VB/winhelp. These are only compressed,encrypted,indexed and commonly misspelled as compiled. For those who think of compilations the previous sentence is not true.

VB

Visual Basic by MS, a fine GUI development and programming tool, will be supported by R14, very slow and huge

Delphi

Borland Delphi Pascal, the VB counterpart for the more advanced. fast and huge (Tony says it's faster than Watcom)

MSVC

Microsoft Visual C (but meaning C++), the most complex VB counterpart :) The compiler R13 is compiled with and you have to use to do ARX. very fast and huge. see Watcom, VB, Delphi, fastest compiler and MS

Watcom

Another compiler, by the University of Waterloo, now a company. The fastest commercial C/C++ compiler, for command line fetishists. gcc++ is faster, CMU CL the fastest, really! both of them are free, R12/Win was built with it. very fast and not small. see fastest compiler

fastest compiler

compiler which produces the fastest code, usually the slowest compiler, often also used as "who has the biggest", see Watcom

GIS

Geographic Information System, has a lot to do with extensive point clouds, 3d meshes and long polylines, also streets, slicing and dicing

fas

a compiled Vital Lisp program, see bi4 and ViLL

bi4

a acomp compiled lisp program, see fas and acomp

DXF

ascii or binary exchange format instead of dwg's, other program may read it

DWG

an acad drawing file, r13 dwg's have a different structure than r12 dwg's

LT

AutoCAD Lite, the cheap AutoCAD without AutoLISP, win only

NAAUG

North American AutoCAD Users Group

(and all the other groups have similar abbrevations)

SAUG

see NAAUG

acadapp

the ADS program which has all the dcl and proteus code and some more. there are often problems with this file. see the acad faq

BASE.DCL

base definition file for dcl's. The typical newbie error. see the acad faq

exp

extension for R12/DOS ADS programs or the ADS program itself.

pgp

the pgp: acad.pgp, support\acad.pgp, collection of command aliases, "change it in the pgp",

only seldom PGP: pretty good privacy, a free encryption program, "send it to me via pgp"

R12, R13, c4, c4a, prec4, preR13...

The various acad releases, R14.01 ist the latest, R13/Win is obvious

C++

huge c successor, OO computer language, the language R13-R14 is programmed in (spelled "See Plus Plus"), unfortunately most of beginners try to learn this awful language (better try lisp, perl or java)

C

old and widely used computer language, some kind of awful macro assembler, the language all preR13's were programmed in

OO

Object orientated. A better way to program userdriven programs in comparison to program driven users.

X

X Windows, not a GUI, more a protocol, but often used as a term for the unix GUI or "unix windows"

script

file with keystrokes as entered from the keyboard in acad to run more commands, has .scr extension. Note: you also often say "script" for a interpreted small program, such as a perl script, or some kind of a macro script.

MNX

compiled menufiles (not decryptable)

SLB

slide library, collection of slides

SLD

slide file, created by _MSLIDE, used by _VSLIDE and others

plt

a plot file, usually a HPGL/2 on plotters and a PCL in laser printers

HPGL/2

extension to HPGL, which allows pixel images also and some filled stuff

HPGL

Hewlett Packard Graphics Language (really?), understood by almost every big plotter and some expensive printers. awful stuff because it always comes out the wrong way round and wasting therefore a lot of paper, simply ignoring if you say 0 or 90 degrees (this is called optimized)

PCL

now what does this stand for? Used by HP laserprinters and others to define a printed page layout. lot of "&"

PS

PostScript. File format and page describing and language by Adobe. Only expensive plotters understand it but then you don't have to hatch anymore. See RIP or SoftRIP

RIP

Raster Image Processor. Usually a RISC chip inside a Postscript plotter which converts postscript commands to pixel. See SoftRIP

SoftRIP

Software RIP. Usually Ghostscript, which is free. adesk also purchased a license to support PS plotters better.

perl

yet another computer language, in between c, awk and c-shell, free and fast. very often used by unix programmers, but has nothing to do with acad

Whip!

slow acad graphic driver, but the first by adesk, which uses a fast display list

Whip! plugin

Whip! add-on to create DWF's (no sado-maso stuff)

DWF

some kind of 2D vrml but faster, enables real time panning and zooming in html documents and with new ocx plugin in every OLE capable win document too. Not seen so far but will be definitely a standard soon. has hyperlinks

vrml

say "Vörmel". 3d geometry format, used by realtime flytrough programs, mostly plugins. now v2.0, has hyperlinks

HOOPS

quite impressive 3d graphics library, created by Ithaca (a bunch of computer graphics professors and specialists, who know ancient greece) and bought by AutoDESK, used i.e in mechtop, 3ds max, softdesk block preview dcl's (the real time stuff), now renamed to Heidi

Heidi

see HOOPS, get the libs at adesk's ftp site to support it

GL

3d graphics library, common name for the Microsoft Implementation on NT of Open GL, which is a free Irix GL (Graphics Library by Silicon Graphics). knows just polygons, no solids. see Hoops

CDK

adesk's VR programming library, unfortunately not very successful but technogical a top product, see VR and vrml

Softengine

the best graphic drivers for acad. by Vibrant Graphics Inc.

ViLL

Vital Lisp, the best alisp tool, a product by Basis Inc.

lpp, l++

the language ViLL is written in (spelled "Lisp Plus Plus")

VR

Virtual Reality. you know, headsets, slow interactive 3d graphics and so on.

3d plotter

not a plotter but a laser device which creates 3d models.

Vector

Solidfill for pre-r14. product by Jerry Workman which does solid filling and some more polyline stuff

microstation

Another CAD program, 10%, by Bentley. A lot of the cca readers will tell you that they will switch over to micorstation but will never do it. It has no AutoLISP and is about the same huge and complicated as acad (but easier to learn for acad users, and as hard to learn for beginners because those have nobody to ask but the bentley guys :), often abbrevated as ustation

ustation

= microstation (u looks like the greek letter for micron)

ustn

= ustation

real cad

some refer in comparison to the simple acad or ustation to solid modelers such as catia, ideas, even mechtop, ... and some others mean acad in opposition to simple cad programs. it depends

mechtop

Mechanical Desktop. high end adesk product based on acad and some addon progs (autosolid, designer)

Solidfill

solids used as hatch replacement

Solid

* either a filled 2d entity consisting of 3-4 points (used for historical reasons), or

* a 3d solid as in every other CAD program (i.e. a polyhedron completely surrounded by faces)

polyhedron

a solid which is completely surrounded by planar polygons

convex

...

concave

...

RTFM

Read The F*cking Manual

the big 8

the following newsgroups hierarchies: comp, humanities, misc, news, rec, sci, soc and talk

ROTFL

Roll on the floor of laughing

FYI

For your information

For everything else that starts with a "(" see the AutoLISP FAQ

names:

cadalog

http://www.cadalog.com

cadsyst

http://www.buildingweb.com/cadsyst

xarch

Experimental Linux machine in a students atelier in Graz. To survive in between HyperWave servers. Runs every protocol or server you can think of, but mostly does the printing service for our macs and windows machines here. Hosts also some students projects and AutoCAD info. http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/autocad/

TonyT

former nickname of Tony but last year another TonyT came around when the real TonyT was not here, so its use is deprecated. see Tony

Tony

Tony Tanzillo, better use this now. (mass poster, lisp specialist)

Reini

Reini Urban (me, mass poster, lisp specialist)

Dennis

Dennis Shinn (seattle users group manager and mass poster)

vlad

Vladimir Nesterovsky (mass poster, physician, lisp specialist)

Serge

ViLL programmer and by far the best Lisp specialist in cca

Darren

Darren Young (mass poster and faq helper)

cadshack

The Cadshack: Jeff Foster http://www.cadshack.com (collector)

Rusty

Rusty Gesner, widely known as co-author of "Maximizing AutoCAD" and "-Lisp"

Lu

<learly@ix.netcom.com> (mass poster)

Cara

Cara Denko, doing the tech docs at adesk's web site and helping out

Owen

Owen Wengerd, (acad specialist)

John Walker

the most famous of the 14 programmers who founded adesk, wrote a book about that company after he left adesk. quite a hacker, at least a guru. He did not write AutoCAD!

Duff Kurland

the last of the 14 adesk founders who left adesk. wrote large parts of AutoCAD, AutoLISP and LT

in subject lines:

Q:

"Question" (as subject prefix)

Ann:

"Announce" (as subject prefix)

Re:

"Return", an answer, see thread

FAQ

List of "Frequently Answered Questions" (or also Frequent Answers and Questions). Lot of work for the writer, a must for a newbie, should help keeping traffic low and quality high

  by David Clark
BTW     by the way
FWTW    for what it's worth
IMO     in my opinion
IMHO    in my humble opinion
LOL     laughing out loud
ROTFLOL rolling on the floor laughing out loud
OTOH    on the other hand
TIA     thanks in advance
RTFM    read the !@#%^ manual
WID     when in doubt
<g>     grin   (use this to prevent misunderstandings ...)
<G>     big grin
ASAP
SNAFU   situation normal, all f%#$@# up

emotional stuff:

<g>

<grin>, or "Say Gee"

:)

Smile, often also used as abbrevation for ;) (twinkling)

:(

Sad

<grin>

<grin>

Internet specific:

Internet

the Internet

internet

this may also be a connection of some internal networks, such as some intranets, but we normally mean Internet when we write internet

net

Internet, "it's on the net", means its reachable via TCP/IP, mostly referred to newsgroups or webpages, can also be ftp

unix

kind of old but stable family of computer operating systems.

TCP/IP

the internet software protocol and naming convention. should work in/after a nuclear war, because of chaotic in-time routing. Consists of TCP and IP

DNS

Domain Name Service. A program which does the domain name -> IP translation

NIC

Network Information Center. At a InterNIC you register domain names.

CERN

European high energy physics research laboratory, in Geneva,

Switzerland. there the internet was invented

URL

Union Resource Locator, a internet naming convention,

i.e. http://www.autodesk.com:80/techdocs/techdoc.html -> protocol, server, port, directory, file

IP

Internet Protocol, a collection of 4 numbers between 0 and 255, dot seperated (such as 129.27.2.1), 129 is austria (.at), 27 is .tu-graz

domain name

one of the names of a certain IP number (to better remember it), converted by a DNS (service) server or a DNS (server)

TCP

Transfer Protocol (this is the weirdest part of internet, allows totally chaotic routes the parts of the transmitted file are going. Check out the command TRACERT on Windows)

web

usually www plus newsgroups.

www

graphical frontend to the http protocol, makes proficient use of the "natural extroversion of the typical internet user"

w3

www or the international www consortium that restricts too much HTML tags :) namely INRIA in france and MIT in US, before it was CERN

http

Hypertext Transfer Protocol, usually on port 80

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language, semantics of tags and attributes. a SGML specification. similar to TeX but not really that elegant. Managed

by the w3 org and enhanced in the unbelievable struggle between netscape and ms, mostly not to its best, current version 3.2.

msie

Microsoft Internet Explorer (also MS IE or just IE)

ftp

File Transfer Protocol

irc

Internet Relay Chat (talk in real time by typing very fast about nonsense)

vi

quite popular unix editor (there are often religious wars with emacs users in comp.editors)

java

c++ improvement, quite lisp alike OO language, but easy to learn for C++ programmers. big hype now and will be quite useful in a few years

java script

not java! a http scripting language, embedded in html docs. see CGI

robot

a web program which visits sites automatically to gather search engine information mostly, not a human alike machine!

spider

same as robot, no animal!

virus

a self-replicating program which infects computers. most of them are harmless but they create a lot of trouble if detected or do some harm. Often the scapegoat of mysterious MS Windows inconsistencies and the lack of cheap system design.

hacker

not a cracker! intelligent, skillfull, idealistic programmer

cracker

not a hacker! removes password checks or copy protection of programs, breaks into other machines.

news

not the news but the articles in the newsgroups. they come from your news server, in opposition to ftp or http files which stay (or at least should) in the home machine

bandwidth

How much information (text, images, video, sound) you can send through a connection. Usually measured in bits-per-second. When used in conjunction with "wasted" the length of an article or sig.

sig

Signature, the (hopefully not more than 3) lines at the end of an article or mail. for the dummies who cannot read headers, for free advertising or for some cute zen canons, see spam, Tony or Rod Young

spam

unliked information. not only "Make money", "Get rich", "Call me" also wasting too much bandwith with useless information. (a quite modern word, such as punk in the 70's or hip in the 80's)

thread

a group of messages on a newsgroup that relate to each other. Mostly the same subject title with only the "Re:" prefixed on the followups, but also a set of Referred messages, created by a followup.

followup

a news posting with reference to another, the default subject title is prefixed with Re: then, but you may also change the subject. Some newsreaders arrange those "threaded" (=indented), some create a new thread, see thread

Followup-to:

you restrict any followup per default to this newsgroup. usually done if any wished comment or answer should not be posted to the other groups to which the post may be posted as well. see crossposting

bincancel

an automatic script in the big 8 newsgroups (comp, rec, ...) which decides when a specific post has too much binary data attached. There's a bincancel FAQ and its use should not be questionized again. For posting binaries there are a lot of appropriate binary groups, (i.e comp.binaries or alt.binaries.misc) groups with bincancel running are discussion groups. you may create your own alt.binaries.cad or alt.cad.binaries newsgroup if you want to. It depends on every news admin if he will carry that group.

Expire

the number of days how long a single news server carries an article (message, post). comp.* groups with a lot of traffic usually have expire 8. comp.cad.autocad had usually 14, but some newsadmins switched it to 8. alt.pictures.binaries.* may have a expire 2, news.answers 30, but the usual number is 14 for discussion groups.

crossposting

if there are more than one newsgroups in the newsgroup header. the way to post to more than one group by combining their names with a comma "," at the newsgroup line. In opposition to post it independently to every single group instead which should NOT be done! crossposted articles are stored only once at the news server. you also crosspost if you followup to a crosspost and don't set a followup-to

snail mail

mail trough slow conventional, (in some countries) expensive and unreliable channels.

home page

The html page that appears when you press "Home". Default: http://home.netscape.com (I dont have msie) Term clarified by Robert Cailliau in CERN, not in the particle collider, in the conference room. With "xx's home page" you usually mean xx's welcome page. Well, often it is the same.

welcome page

the first page that appears on top of a subcollection with omitting the filename, often called "home page" or index, you know it as index.html or INDEX.HTM in your public_html directory or as page which appears when you omit any directory and filename in a URL.

frames

a feature in HTML pages every surfer (=reader) hates and a lot of writers like. Simply don't use it if you don't want to annoy surfers. you cannot make bookmarks on subframes, you dont know on which page you are, you cannot press "back" and "forward". fancy headers or footers may also be created by SSI

surfers

web surfers. web readers. Internet readers which click their way trough the world. maybe because they get lost in the waves as wave riders. They won't get wet. Only a few wave riders or windsurfers are Internet surfers. They have better things to do. (I used to be a windsurfer and became unfortunately a web surfer now)

tables

the only way to arrange text side by side in HTML docs. the text can be displayed when the whole table is read, so use not long tables. see graphics

graphics

images in HTML docs which are usually turned off by surfers who have to pay for their online time or want faster access. Unfortunately graphics are needed for a companies coorporate indentity, so the first who shows to combine both of it, a good coorporate indentity without graphics, will be a famous if not a rich man.

CGI

a program which runs on web servers to enhance HTML pages and features. see java script which runs locally on the client's browser and not on the server. In fact CGI is just the protocol for the interaction between the http server and any program. Usually a perl program with the .cgi extension, but could be everything.

httpd

the http demon (process, memory resident program) on a web server.

SSI

server side includes. a statement like <--#include="header.inc"--> in a HTML doc. must be enabled by the httpd and often the extension .htmls or .shtml instead of .html. SSI docs must be parsed by the httpd at request time and are therefore not liked by webadmins but liked by web authors. With SSI you can also do some magic like calling programs, do text based web counters or include the date of the latest file update.

gif counter

trick to count access to web pages which uses horribly many resources and looks awful, better do it with SSI or better: don't do it.

admin

the administrator of a server, named "root" on unix, and "Administrator" on NT. he has all the rights you usually have on your window machine but dont have in a unix or novell network. a very special type of person: some of the nicest guys will become, once admin, nervous wracks and hyper sensible.
But he is able to sniff other peoples passwords and credit card confidentials, that's why he should be a trusted stable person (of course I'm no admin, only admin oy my nt machine, but doesn't count as long as there are not some users logging in on my machine) Always think bad of admins and always behave nice to them!
See also the Know Your Unix System Administrator Field Guide.

server

a computer which is never switched off. it allows access for clients via a network. there are server daemons for a lot of ports used by protocols such as ftp, www, telnet, news, mail, irc, ...

port

a number, i.e. 80 for www daemons "listen" on this port for news, like IRQ's in a computer

protocol

a server software, such as tcp/ip, netbeui, ipx, and also the way how some network programs communicate with each other such as ftp, telnet, mail, http, ...

demon

a memory resident program on unix-like machines. is called service on NT

webadmin

the guy responsible for the httpd, usually the site admin. sometimes the creator of the first welcome page. this can be the admin or the creative guy. You probably see the differences at once. see graphics and SSI

newsadmin

the guy responible for the news server, usually the admin of a seperate unix machine. he sets the expire for each group and is resonsible for carrying or censoring certain groups.

ftpadmin

you may guess who. he allows anonymous access, restricts the number of concurrent users and writes those cute .message files which appear at startup.

mailadmin

he's the poorest admin of all admins. usually the admin. nobody wants the be this because of sendmail, massive harddisc problems and an incountable numbers of complaint mails. But he usually reads other peoples post. see PGP

password

the string you're usually very afraid to forget if you need it. Also the string which is very welcome amongst unix hackers (or should I crackers?) to be able to do some stuff you are normally not able to do. also a string which is written on a piece of paper near your computer and is usually the name of your dog, wife, car, daughter or girlfriend. unix systems normally don't accept passwords without any special character in it. on unix systems you'll have to change your password every some months. Simply try to crack a zip with a 26 chars password and then one with any a special character (255 chars). The difference can be years. "bill" is a bad one, "1!judy&" a better one. see security Also a problem in windows+novell networks, where you have to type in both, if you dont share the same user name on both servers.

security

normally nothing you have to worry about if you're not admin, besides your password. Could be easily enhanced, if you format your drive with NTFS, and restrict other's rights. good for your private porn pictures. But beware with NTFS! You may have troubles to restore any data if there's a minor FAT or virus problem on the windows partition if it's NTFS too. see password, NTFS, ntfsdos

porn

the story of Internet success, aliases are sex, a.p.b.e.*

MS specific stuff:

MS

Microsoft

NT

Microsoft Windows NT operating system

Win32

32-bit Microsoft Windows operating systems, WfW with win32s support, Win95 and esp. NT, mostly used just for Win95 and NT

Win95

Microsoft Windows 95

win32s

32bit subsystem for Win16, must be installed on Win16 to run 32-bit programs

Win16

Any 16-bit Windows (that's every Windows up to Wfw 3.11)

OCX

compiled OLE module (program),

DDE

Dynamic Data Extension, enables magic keystrokes in other applications

DLL

Dynamic Link Library, shared library in opposition to static libs. functions in .dll (or also .arx, ...) files which are loaded and executed at run-time, may be shared amongst other applications (hopefully).

winhelp

a windows help file, with the .HLP extension

Bill

by far the richest top hacker and manager (not my idol, no!)

NTFS

the enhanced NT file system, see security and pray to god.

ntfsdos

enables you or anybody else to read protected files on NTFS partitions

* more from some webpage:
AAMOF = As A Matter Of Fact
AFAIK = As Far As I Know
AWGTHTGTTA = Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again?
Alternative form is AWGTHTGTATA (...Through ALL This Again?)
BBFN = Bye Bye For Now
BIOYIOP = Blow It Out Your Input Output Port
BRB  = Be Right Back (generally used on chat systems)
BTA = But Then Again
BTW = By The Way
BYKT = But You Knew That
BYKTA = But You Knew That Already
CMIIW =  Correct Me If I'm Wrong
CYL = See You Later
DNPM = Darn Near P***ed Myself
EOD =  End Of Discussion
EOL =  End Of Lecture
ESOSL = Endless Snorts of Stupid Laughter
FDROTFL = Falling Down Rolling On The Floor Laughing
FITB = Fill In The Blank....
FOTCL = Falling Off The Chair Laughing
FWIW = For What It's Worth
FYI = For Your Information
GD&R = Grin, Duck & Run
GOK = God Only Knows
IAC = In Any Case
IMCDO = In My Conceited Dogmatic Opinion.
IMHO = In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO = In My Not So Humble Opinion
IOW = In Other Words
IITYWYBMAB = If I Tell You, Will You Buy Me A Beer
IITYWYBAD =  If I Tell You, Will You Buy Another Drink
INPO = In No Particular Order
KCBIWIYWI = Keep Coming Back, It Works If You Work It
LLTA = Lots and Lots of Thunderous (or Thundering) Applause
LOL  = Laughing out loud
LMAO = Laughing My A** Off
MUNG = Mash Until No Good
NICBDAT = Nothing Is Certain But Death And Taxes
NIMBY = Not In My Backyard
NIMTO = Not In My Term of Office
NPLU = Not People Like Us
NQOS = Not Quite Our Sort
OIC  = OH!, I See
OTOH = On The Other Hand
PGY = Post Graduate year PGY-1, PGY-2 etc. used in PGY Med.
PMETC =  Pardon Me Etc.
PMYMHMMFSWGAD = Pardon Me, You Must Have Mistaken Me For Someone Who
                Gives A Damn.
PTO=Patent and Trademark Office (US Govt)
ROFL = Rolling On Floor Laughing
ROFLAHMSL = Rolling On Floor Laughing And Holding My Sides Laughing
ROTBA = Reality On The Blink Again
ROTFL = Rolling On The Floor Laughing
ROFLASTC (or ROFLASC) = Rolling On The Floor Laughing And Scaring
  The Cat. Originated, I'm told by Pamela Dean, who types with a cat
  on her lap.
ROTFLMAAOBPO = Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A** And Other Body
               Parts Off
ROY G. BIV = An acronym for the colors of the spectrum-- Red Orange
             Yellow Green
Blue Indigo Violet
RSN = Real Soon Now
RTFM = Read The F**** Manual
SWAG = Simple Wild A** Guess

IMHO the above should be Scientific yada yada yada

SYT = Sweet Young Thing
TANJ = There Ain't No Justice
TANSTAAFL = There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TIC = Tongue In Cheek
TINALO = This Is Not A Legal Opinion
TINAR = This Is Not A Recommendation
TIWTGLGG = This Is Where The Goofy Little Grin Goes
TJATAW = Truth, Justice, And The American Way
TLA = Three Letter Acronym
TRDMC = Tears Running Down My Cheeks
TTBOMK = To The Best Of My Knowledge
TTFN = Ta Ta For Now
TTYL = Talk To You Later
TYVM = Thank You Very Much
WAMKSAM =  Why Are My Kids (or Kitties) Staring At Me?
WIBAMU = Well I'll be a Monkey's Uncle
WYSBYGI = What You See Before You Get It
WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get
YAP = Yet Another Ploy
YMMV = Your Mileage May Vary

Copyright (c) 1997 by Reini Urban. May be published only by permission. (Darren, you have it :)
Please refer to this document with "cca glossary" or "cca glossary by Reini Urban"

written and posted 21:40 07.Feb 97 by Reini Urban <rurban@xarch.tu-graz.ac.at>

<Darren: for the AutoCAD FAQ, Chapter: Glossary>