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

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:46:13 -0700
Richard Urwin wrote:

It's a password in Colossal Cave, the worlds first RPG program.
It entered the hacker mindset thereafter as a metasyntactic variable.

	http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/X/xyzzy.html

(If you Google for "xyzzy", most of the hits on the first page you see are in Japanese. I'm curious why....)