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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>incantation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../I.html" title="I"/><link rel="previous" href="in-the-extreme.html" title="in the extreme"/><link rel="next" href="include.html" title="include"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">incantation</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="in-the-extreme.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">I</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="include.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="incantation"/><dt xmlns="" id="incantation"><b>incantation</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Any particularly arbitrary or obscure command that one must mutter
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at a system to attain a desired result. Not used of passwords or other
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explicit security features. Especially used of tricks that are so poorly
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documented that they must be learned from a <a href="../W/wizard.html"><i class="glossterm">wizard</i></a>.
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“<span class="quote">This compiler normally locates initialized data in the data segment,
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but if you <a href="../M/mutter.html"><i class="glossterm">mutter</i></a> the right incantation they will be
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