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

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From: Richard Urwin <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:08:32 +0100

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.

-- 
Richard Urwin

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