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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Wed,  2 Jun 2004 10:54:00 +0100
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>>and gives no pointers to additional information?  At least with the
>>IBM manuals, it was possible to find out where the above originated
>>and to establish an apporximation to the cause.

Messages and Codes was notoriously unhelpful in many cases.
often the diagnosis and suggested resolution was infuriatingly
similar to the answer to the joke
``Doctor!  It hurts when I do this.''.