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[Ashley Carder]

>  >> Maybe I should republish the T-shirt I made up in college, with
>  >> the text:
>  >> 
>  >> C6 A4 83 92 40 C9 C2 D4

Got it!

I take it that you wore this shirt when you were a DEC guy?

>  >> (.)(.)  IKF4084
> OS/360 Messages and Codes says IKF is a Cobol compiler message.  The
> COBOL manual says (going from memory here -- it's not on Al's site):
> 
>       IKF4084-I -- Questionable use of parentheses accepted
> 		   with doubts as to meaning
> 
> I haven't a clue what kind of code a compiler would generate when it
> spits out a message like that.  My guess is that this is what you get
> if you feed it the source line "(.)(.)" but I haven't actually tried
> that.

My COBOL manuals are in the attic.  I'll trust your word on this
one until I dig my message manuals out.

Ashley