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

[Graeme Hewson <ghewson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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