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[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Ashley" == Ashley Carder <wacarder at usit.net> writes:

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

See an EBCDIC code chart...  

 >> Somewhat related, there once was a company named "Outer Products"
 >> that produced lovely geek T-shirts.  One I remember -- it said:
 >> 
 >> (.)(.)  IKF4084

 Ashley> Ok, Paul, my secret decoder ring doesn't seem to be working.
 Ashley> How long before you decode this for us?

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.

	paul