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'-- enable-digest-auth-helpers = password'

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  1. transitive verb To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity; make able: a hole in the fence that enabled us to watch; techniques that enable surgeons to open and repair the heart.
  2. transitive verb To make feasible or possible: funds that will enable construction of new schools.
  3. transitive verb To give legal power, capacity, or sanction to: a law enabling the new federal agency.
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  • -- enable-local-infile -- enable-shared -- with-plugins = innobase —  Netvouz - new bookmarks
  • -- enable-kernel = 2.6.0 -- with-__thread -- with-binutils = / cross-tools / bin —  LinuxQuestions.org
  • -- enable-extensions = cookie, xml-rpc, xmlextras, p3p, pref, universalchardet, typeaheadfind, webservices
  • -- enable-libgsm -- enable-libmp3lame -- enable-libschroedinger -- enable-libtheora —  KDE-Apps.org Content
  • '-- enable-removal-policies = lru, heap' —  doggdot.us
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  1. Formerly also inable; from Middle English enablen; from en- + able.
 

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/ɛˈneɪbl/
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