Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Problem linking plugin in Win32

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From: Graeme Hewson <ghewson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:13:45 +0100
Richard Urwin wrote:

On Thursday 16 Sep 2004 5:58 pm, Ulf Lamping wrote:


Thomas Boehne wrote:
nmake -f Makefile.nmake xyzzy (who came up with


that name?)


Well, I've asked myself the same question before ...



It's a password in Colossal Cave, the worlds first RPG program.
It entered the hacker mindset thereafter as a metasyntactic variable.
The entry for it in the Jargon File is here: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/X/xyzzy.html