-.\" $NetBSD: wtf.6,v 1.15 2012/10/03 19:50:43 wiz Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: wtf.6,v 1.19 2015/04/22 15:04:57 christos Exp $
.\"
.\" Public Domain
.\"
-.Dd October 3, 2012
+.Dd April 22, 2015
.Dt WTF 6
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm wtf
-.Nd translate acronyms
+.Nd look up terms
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl f Ar dbfile
+.Op Fl o
.Op Ar is
-.Ar acronym ...
+.Ar term ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-utility displays the expansion of one or more acronyms
-specified on the command line.
-If an acronym is not in any of the acronym databases,
+utility looks up the meaning of one or more
+.Ar term
+operands specified on the command line.
+.Pp
+.Ar term
+will first be searched for as an acronym in the acronym databases,
which are expected to be in the format
-.Dq acronym[tab]meaning ,
+.Dq acronym[tab]meaning .
+If no match has been found,
.Nm
-will check to see if it is known by
+will check to see if the term is known by
.Xr whatis 1 ,
.Xr pkg_info 1 ,
-or via pkgsrc's internal help mechanism,
+or, when called from within a pkgsrc package directory,
+pkgsrc's internal help facility,
.Dq make help topic=XXX .
.Pp
-If
-.Dq is
-is specified on the command line, it will be ignored, allowing the
+The optional
+.Ar is
+operand will be ignored, allowing the
fairly natural
.Dq wtf is WTF
usage.
.Pp
-The following options are available:
+The following option is available:
.Bl -tag -width flag
.It Fl f Ar dbfile
Overrides the default list of acronym databases, bypassing the value of 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.
+.It Fl o
+Include acronyms that could be considered offensive to some.
+Please consult
+.Xr fortune 6
+for more information about the
+.Fl o
+flag.
.El
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
.Bl -tag -width ACRONYMDB
.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/misc/acronyms.XXXX -compact
.It Pa /usr/share/misc/acronyms
default acronym database.
+.It Pa /usr/share/misc/acronyms-o
+default offensive acronym database.
.It Pa /usr/share/misc/acronyms.comp
default computer-related acronym database.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr make 1 ,
.Xr pkg_info 1 ,
-.Xr whatis 1
+.Xr whatis 1 ,
+.Xr fortune 6
.Sh HISTORY
.Nm
first appeared in
.Nx 1.5 .
+Initially it only translated acronyms;
+functionality to look up the meaning of terms in other sources was added later.