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• It is an historical botch to require specification of object, radix, and sign representation in a single character argument.
  -- Unix Manual, od(1)...
• magic cookie n. [Unix; common] 1. Something passed between routines or programs that enables the receiver to perform some operatio
  a capability ticket or opaque identifier. Especially used of small data objects that contain data encoded in a strange or intrinsically machine-dependent way....
• magic cookie: [UNIX] n. 1. Something passed between routines or programs that enables the receiver to perform some operatio
  a capability ticket or opaque identifier. Especially used of small data objects that contain data encoded in a strange or intrinsically machine-dependent way....
• WSWW: Work in Strange and Wondrous Way
• Get GUMMed --- ------ The Gurus of Unix Meeting of Minds (GUMM) takes place Wednesday
  April 1, 2076 (check THAT in your perpetual calendar program), 14 feet above the ground directly in front of the Milpitas Gumps....
• The diagnostics produced by C itself are intended to be self-explanatory.
  Occasional obscure messages may be produced by the preprocessor, assembler, or loader....