1 Mar
2005
1 Mar
'05
5:09 p.m.
>>>> "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