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From:	Nick Bowler <nbowler AT draconx DOT ca>
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Subject:	Re: scrambled documentation for _dosmemput*, please fix
Date:	Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:12:42 +0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 06:00:12 -0400, Rod Pemberton wrote:
> I haven't been keeping track of mistakes in
> libc.info.  I know that there are a bunch of
> spelling errors.  They're easily found by any
> modern word processor.  Well, that's not good.
> It seems libc.info for DJGPP v2.03 from libc.tex,
> is rife with spelling errors:
[...]
> automagically     <-not a word (2 times)

It's a perfectly cromulent word.  From the Jargon File[1]:

  automagically: /aw toh maj i klee/, adv.

  Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically because it
  is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even too trivial), the
  speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you. See magic. “The C-INTERCAL
  compiler generates C, then automagically invokes cc(1) to produce an
  executable.”

  This term is quite old, going back at least to the mid-70s in jargon and
  probably much earlier. The word ‘automagic’ occurred in advertising (for
  a shirt-ironing gadget) as far back as the late 1940s.

[1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/A/automagically.html

Regards,
  Nick

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