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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>UTSL</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../U.html" title="U"/><link rel="previous" href="Utah-teapot.html" title="Utah teapot, the"/><link rel="next" href="UUOC.html" title="UUOC"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">UTSL</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Utah-teapot.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">U</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="UUOC.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="UTSL"/><dt xmlns="" id="UTSL"><b>UTSL</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Unix] On-line acronym for ‘Use the Source, Luke’ (a pun
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on Obi-Wan Kenobi's “<span class="quote">Use the Force, Luke!</span>” in <i class="citetitle">Star
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Wars</i>) — analogous to <a href="../R/RTFS.html"><i class="glossterm">RTFS</i></a> (sense
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1), but more polite. This is a common way of suggesting that someone would
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be better off reading the source code that supports whatever feature is
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causing confusion, rather than making yet another futile pass through the
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manuals, or broadcasting questions on Usenet that haven't attracted
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<a href="../W/wizard.html"><i class="glossterm">wizard</i></a>s to answer them.</p><p>Once upon a time in <a href="../E/elder-days.html"><i class="glossterm">elder days</i></a>, everyone
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running Unix had source. After 1978, AT&T's policy tightened up, so
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this objurgation was in theory appropriately directed only at associates of
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some outfit with a Unix source license. In practice, bootlegs of Unix
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source code (made precisely for reference purposes) were so ubiquitous that
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one could utter it at almost anyone on the network without concern.</p><p>Nowadays, free Unix clones have become widely enough distributed that
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anyone can read source legally. The most widely distributed is certainly
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Linux, with variants of the NET/2 and 4.4BSD distributions running second.
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Cheap commercial Unixes with source such as BSD/OS are accelerating this
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trend.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Utah-teapot.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../U.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="UUOC.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Utah teapot, the </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> UUOC</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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